Ask and Responding

Ask

Ask verb - To put a question or questions to.

Responding is an antonym for ask.

Nearby Words: asked, asking

Responding

Definitions of Ask not found.

Ask is an antonym for responding in act in answer to something topic.

Both words in one sentence

  • Middle-aged or older, hostile, hates the students, expresses said hatred by slamming food onto trays and responding less than sympathetically when they ask if there's anything else to eat.
  • When the Judge states that he was responding to a call for backup, Dredd points out that the Judge didn't ask about the rookie Anderson.
  • But Thou Must! Parodied in Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, where, upon being told he is not allowed to pick up a certain bucket, the player gets to ask repetitive questions while the NPC keeps responding "no".
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