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Definition of answering : of Answer

Synonyms:

respondent, responsive

confessing, atoning, pleading, regretting, repenting, apologizing

echoing, retorting, acknowledging, explaining, expounding, countercharging, returning, countering, responding, rebutting, replying, coming back

dispatching, corresponding, posting

fending, securing, safeguarding, opposing, arguing, saving, protecting, guarding, buffering, barring, sustaining, shielding, screening, warding, backfiring, counterattacking, policing, covering, sheltering, upholding, supporting, barricading, averting, resisting

justifying, denying, objecting, reacting, refuting, defending

Usage examples:

• " Nona's message was far too mysterious and vague to consider answering. - "The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army", Margaret Vandercook.
• It was an answering start to one on his part. - "Dead Men Tell No Tales", E. W. Hornung.
• " Why, yes," came the answering thought. - "Youth", Isaac Asimov.