Answer(n.) To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.
Answer(n.) To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to.
Answer(n.) To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute.
Answer(n.) To be or act in return or response to.
Answer(n.) To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, demand; as, he answered my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell.
Answer(n.) To render account to or for.
Answer(n.) To atone; to be punished for.
Answer(n.) To be opposite to; to face.
Answer(n.) To be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.
Answer(n.) To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit.
Answer(n.) A reply to a change; a defense.
Answer(n.) Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply.
Answer(n.) Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action.
Answer(n.) A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem.
Answer(n.) A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill.
Answer(v. i.) To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response.
Answer(v. i.) To make a satisfactory response or return.
Answer(v. i.) To render account, or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intrusted to his care.
Answer(v. i.) To be or act in return.
Answer(v. i.) To be or act by way of compliance, fulfillment, reciprocation, or satisfaction; to serve the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils.
Answer(v. i.) To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
Answer(v. i.) To be or act as an equivalent, or as adequate or sufficient; as, a very few will answer.
Answer(v. i.) To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; -- usually with to.
Answerable(a.) Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages.
Answerable(a.) Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer.
Answerable(a.) Correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable.
Answerable(a.) Proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as, an achievement answerable to the preparation for it.
Answerable(a.) Equal; equivalent; adequate.
Answerableness(n.) The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent.
Answerably(adv.) In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably.
Answered(imp. & p. p.) of Answer
Answerer(n.) One who answers.
Answering(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Answer
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