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answer for

answer for verb: to be held responsible for; to take the blame for something.

Verb

answer for (third-person singular simple present answers for, present participle answering for, simple past and past participle answered for)

  1. (ambitransitive) To be held responsible for; to take the blame for something.
    • The mayor will be answering for his crimes for many years.
    • Oh John, you'll never be a man / And you'll never see your home again / Oh Manchester, so much to answer for1984, Morrissey, Johnny Marr, “Suffer Little Children”, in The Smiths, performed by The Smiths
  2. (transitive) To guarantee.
    • I will answer for his debt, if he can't pay on the day.
  3. (transitive) To vouch for (someone); to attest to the character of (someone).
    • She's known me for years, and she's always answered for me!
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see answer, for.
    • I don't know the answer to that, so I'm going to let my lawyer answer for me.

answer for meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

answer for in Tamil

பொறுப்பேற்றல், பதிலளிக்க வேண்டிய நிலையில் இருத்தல், தண்டிக்கப்படுதல்

answer for in Malayalam

be accountable for, be responsible for, be liable for
ഉത്തരം പറയേണ്ടി വരുക, മറുപടി പറയേണ്ടി വരുക, കണക്കു പറയേണ്ടി വരുക, ഉത്തരവാദിയാകുക, ബലിയാടാകുക, കുറ്റം ഏറ്റെടുക്കുക
pay for, be punished for, suffer for
മറുപടി പറയുക, കടം വീട്ടുക, ചെയ്ത തെറ്റിനു ശിക്ഷിക്കപ്പെടുക, അനുയോജ്യമായ ഫലം ലഭിക്കുക, ചെയ്ത തെറ്റി ശിക്ഷ അനുഭവിക്കുക, പരിഹാരം ചെയ്യുക

Forms of answer for

third-person singular presentanswers for
present participleanswering for
past participleanswered for
pastanswered for

Questions about answer for

What does answer for mean?
Answer for means to be held responsible for; to take the blame for something.
What is answer for in Tamil?
Answer for in Tamil is பொறுப்பேற்றல், பதிலளிக்க வேண்டிய நிலையில் இருத்தல், தண்டிக்கப்படுதல். See Answer for meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is answer for?
Answer for is a verb.
What is the past tense of answer for?
The past tense of answer for is answered for.

Words near answer for in the dictionary

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Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: answer for (page history and authors); answer for (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); answer for (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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