To succeed in defeating a challenge, or an attack.
To resist, particularly an infection or an emotion.
To act or gesture in response.
To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.
To repeat something back; to echo.
Something given in reply.
A counterattack.
A document written by a party specifically replying to a responsive declaration and in some cases an answer.
The answer of a figure.
A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.