What does answering mean?

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an·swer·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. answering, respondentadjective

    replying

    "an answering glance"; "an answering smile"

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  1. answering

    Answering is the act of responding to a question, statement, or inquiry providing the necessary or requested information. It can also involve reacting to a situation or problem with a particular action. Answering applies to different forms of communication, such as spoken or written language.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Answering

    of Answer

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of answering in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of answering in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of answering in a Sentence

  1. Faisal Abdullah Obeid:

    If you don't follow up on them all, the Iraqi people will ask you today or tomorrow what you've done for Iraq, we can say honestly and with all transparency that the political class is unqualified to rule the country, and we can say he was the best among them, but we can't say he's answering the demands of the Iraqi people.

  2. House Judiciary Committee:

    Lynch has no intention of answering ... even the most basic questions about the legal elements the government is obligated to prove in a criminal prosecution.

  3. Anne Weismann:

    From the outset, it seems as if the FBI is doing everything it can to avoid answering the question of whether they actually found gold.

  4. Leo Tolstoy:

    Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

  5. Nicolas Hulot:

    I don't want to give the illusion that my position within the government suggested that we are answering these problems properly, so I'm leaving the government, i no longer want to lie.

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