Definitions

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  • verb Present participle of answer.

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  • adjective replying

Etymologies

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answer +‎ -ing

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Examples

  • "That is what you call answering, avowing that there is nothing to answer."

    En Route 1877

  • "More liberties," Janet indignantly declared, and after the first visitation or two she resolutely set her face against what she called the answering of impertinent questions.

    Janet's Love and Service 1859

  • Something must have passed between the two which satisfied the writer that the bishop acknowledged his own sovereign under some title answering to Prester John.

    A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

  • I am so sorry for the delay in answering, I thought I answered you right away, but I must have hit the wrong button and lost the response in cyberspace.

    Come To Patzcuaro, Buy My House! 2009

  • Also, in answering your other question, I think to contact him you should write an honest-to-god letter and send it via snail mail.

    A Brother By Any Other Name | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • The opening weekend is only the first step, but it's a vital one in answering these questions.

    Weighing The ‘Avatar’ Weekend Box Office Possibilities » MTV Movies Blog 2009

  • So the question those experienced pilots should be answering, is how hard is it to hit a big building at all?

    1000 Architects and Engineers 2010

  • Thank you as well for your patience and kindness in answering questions that have probably been asked on previous occasions. lsvgspepe

    Page 2 2009

  • Thank you as well for your patience and kindness in answering questions that have probably been asked on previous occasions. lsvgspepe

    Page 2 2009

  • I was reading an essay of Saleeby's the other day, and the best Saleeby could say was that Herbert Spencer NEARLY succeeded in answering Berkeley.

    Chapter 36 2010

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