answer
/ˈæn·sər/ v [I/T] (REACT)Definition
› [I] I knocked on your door last night, but no one answered. "I don’t know," he answered. [+ that clause] She answered that she couldn’t arrive before nine o’clock. [T] She refused to answer questions on whether she would run for the Senate.
(Definition of answer v (REACT) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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