Answer and Pump

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Answer verb - To speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction.

Usage example: didn't answer right away when the detective asked him where he'd been for the last three hours

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Pump is an antonym for answer.

Pump verb - To make short up-and-down movements.

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Answer is an antonym for pump in topics: question relentlessly, draw or push out.

Nearby Words: pumped, pumping

money	answer money	pump money
points	answer points	pump points

For a correct answer, the door opened and the contestant moved on to the next station; an incorrect answer meant that the contestant had to open the door manually using a pulley, a pump, or whatever was there.

Source: Series / Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?
Golems themselves don't really understand what all the fuss is about; they see themselves as tools and will answer to Pump 19 just as readily as Mr. Pump.

Source: Mister Descriptor
After that, the winners pump out one guaranteed hit single (usually that year's Christmas Number One) — because the show is literally a two-month advertisement for their single — before becoming an answer in a pub quiz.

Source: Series / The X Factor

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