Word Finder - reply

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A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.

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Something given in reply.

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A counterattack.

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The answer of a figure.

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A document written by a party specifically replying to a responsive declaration and in some cases an answer.

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To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.

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To act or gesture in response.

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Joanne replied to Pete's insult with a slap to his face.

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To repeat something back; to echo.

When I didn't reply, she continued.

His reply was fast.

She smiled at his reply, relieved, then texted Dusty.

Dean started to reply, but she cut him off.

She opened her mouth to give him a smart reply, but Denton gripped her elbow.

His reply was far calmer than she felt.

In reply the pope prepared a bull of excommunication against those who should infringe the prerogatives of the Holy See in this matter.

Betsy mumbled a reply and turned away.

The reply was instant.

Pierre was about to reply, but Prince Vasili interrupted him.

Mangashh made no reply, and Baratieri crossing the Mareb advanced to Adowa, but four days later was obliged to return northwards.

Katie didn't reply, gaping at a woman in her sixties with enough diamonds to reverse world hunger.

But before Cynthia could reply, the phone interrupted.

He betrayed his surprise at her reply by his movement.

He made no reply on his father's favorite topic-- making fun of the military men of the day, and more particularly of Bonaparte.

Natasha did not reply and went to her own room to read Princess Mary's letter.

She headed for the door, tossing a grumpy reply over her shoulder.

We meet with this in the titles of two Latin works' by German authors in reply to Lord Herbert of Cherbury.

I am tempted to reply to such--This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space.

The princess rested her bare round arm on a little table and considered a reply unnecessary.

Lisa waited for his reply in tense silence, but his response filled her with equal anger and pain.

She paused, but when Carmen didn't reply, she continued.

Without waiting for her to reply, he strode away, pausing only long enough to shrug into his denim jacket.

When Descartes complained to the authorities of this unfair treatment, 4 the only reply was an order by which all mention of the name of Cartesianism, whether favourable or adverse, was forbidden in the university.

Natasha did not reply, nor did she sob any longer, but she grew cold and had a shivering fit.

Pierre wished to reply, but could not get in a word.

One terrible question absorbed him and to that question he heard no reply from anyone.

Before he could reply, she jumped up, still laugh­ing, grabbed his hand and tugged at him.

Rather than reply, he released a wave of power that knocked over guardsmen and trees alike.

Benjamin Hoadly, the newly-appointed bishop of Bangor, scented the opportunity and wrote a speedy and able reply, Preservative against the Principles and Practices of Non-Jurors, in which his own Erastian position was recommended and sincerity proposed as the only test of truth.

His reply to Hume was this - Mechanical causation is as real as the unity of consciousness.

He gave an indignant reply.

Balashev, feeling it incumbent on him to reply, said that from the Russian side things did not appear in so gloomy a light.

After Kaysarov, others whom Pierre knew came up to him, and he had not time to reply to all the questions about Moscow that were showered upon him, or to listen to all that was told him.

If he was getting ready to make an indecent proposal, she didn't want Katie to hear the squelching reply she had planned.

Before Dean could reply, the telephone rang for the third time, with a shrillness that startled them both.

In reply to those who thought that Parmenides's theory of the existence of the One involved inconsistencies and absurdities, Zeno tried to show that the assumption of the existence of the Many, that is to say, a plurality of things in time and space, carried with it inconsistencies and absurdities grosser and more numerous.

The Gomarists in reply drew up a Contra-Remonstrance in seven articles, and appealed to a purely church synod.

I sent a belated apology, but had no reply.

For sole reply Daniel gave him a shy, childlike, meek, and amiable smile.

But before the whip could reply, the hare, scenting the frost coming next morning, was unable to rest and leaped up.

He well remembered the last interview he had had with the old prince at the time of the enrollment, when in reply to an invitation to dinner he had had to listen to an angry reprimand for not having provided his full quota of men.

This reply of Balashev's, which hinted at the recent defeats of the French in Spain, was much appreciated when he related it at Alexander's court, but it was not much appreciated at Napoleon's dinner, where it passed unnoticed.

Moment by moment the event is imperceptibly shaping itself, and at every moment of this continuous, uninterrupted shaping of events the commander-in-chief is in the midst of a most complex play of intrigues, worries, contingencies, authorities, projects, counsels, threats, and deceptions and is continually obliged to reply to innumerable questions addressed to him, which constantly conflict with one another.

She swallowed down a crisp reply.

Before Fred could reply, or whack her in the mouth, which would have been Dean's first choice, the front doorbell interrupted the tense gathering.

He didn't expect a reply and started forward, trailed closely by Yully.

He smiled, not expecting the saucy reply.

She has Watchers' blood, was the short reply.

In reply to a complaint of his violence he cried, "Come, come, I will put an end to your prating.