Follow
Follow verb - To come after in time.
Respond to and follow are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Respond to" instead a verb "Follow".
Respond to
Follow and respond to are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Follow" instead a verb "Respond to".
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The cops who respond to a 911 call at a hotel follow the sounds of screams to a room where some students are shooting a slasher film.
Source: You Just Ruined the Shot -
And finally, this was the main reason Lelouch did not respond to Kallen in the last few episodes of R2 even after she kissed him, as he knew that if he told her he loved her (whether true or not) that she would turn against the Black Knights and the rest of the world to follow him.
Source: Love Makes You Evil -
At the end of the Witch Hunt DLC for Dragon Age: Origins, the Warden can respond to Morrigan's insistence that he shouldn't follow her without knowing anything about where she's going that he doesn't care where they end up, so long as they're together.
Source: You Are Worth Hell
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