Answered

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Answer \An"swer\ ([a^]n"s[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Answered}
     ([a^]n"s[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Answering}.] [OE.
     andswerien, AS. andswerian, andswarian, to answer, fr.
     andswaru, n., answer. See {Answer}, n.]
     1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as,
        to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.


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     2. 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.
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              She answers him as if she knew his mind. --Shak.
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              So spake the apostate angel, though in pain: . . .
              And him thus answered soon his bold compeer.
                                                    --Milton.
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     3. To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way
        of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like;
        to refute.
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              No man was able to answer him a word. --Matt. xxii.
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              These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant.
                                                    --Milton.
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              The reasoning was not and could not be answered.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     4. To be or act in return or response to. Hence:
        (a) 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.
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                  This proud king . . . studies day and night
                  To answer all the debts he owes unto you.
                                                    --Shak.
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        (b) To render account to or for.
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                  I will . . . send him to answer thee. --Shak.
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        (c) To atone; to be punished for.
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                  And grievously hath C[ae]zar answered it.
                                                    --Shak.
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        (d) To be opposite to; to face.
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                  The windows answering each other, we could just
                  discern the glowing horizon them. --Gilpin.
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        (e) To be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or
            sufficient for; to serve for; to repay. [R.]
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                  Money answereth all things.       --Eccles. x.
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        (f) To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation,
            or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit.
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                  Weapons must needs be dangerous things, if they
                  answered the bulk of so prodigious a person.
                                                    --Swift.
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