Respond

v. i. [imp. & p. p. RESPONDED; p. pr. & vb. n. RESPONDING.] [Lat. respondere, responsum, from re, again, back, and spondere, to promise.] 1. To answer; to reply. A new affliction strings a new chord in the heart, which responds to some new note of complaint within the wide scale of human woe. Buckminster. 2. To correspond; to suit. To every theme responds thy various lay. Broome. 3. To render satisfaction; to make payment; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages. Syn.—To answer; reply; rejoin.

v. t. [Rare.] 1. To answer; to suit or accord with; to correspond to. For his great deeds respond his speeches great. Fairfax. 2. To satisfy by payment; as, the surety was held to respond the judgment of court.