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answered to

answered to is the simple past and past participle of answer to.

Meaning of answer to

Verb

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

  1. To be accountable or responsible to; to account to; to report to.
    • I'm above you in the hierarchy, Jim, so you should be answering to me.
  2. To justify oneself to (someone). (usually with have to)
    • You're going to have to answer to all of these charges to my satisfaction.
  3. To respond to (a name); to treat as one's own name.
    • She's answered to Katie her entire life.

Questions about answered to

What is answered to the simple past and past participle of?
Answered to is the simple past and past participle of answer to.

Words near answered to in the dictionary

  1. answered for
  2. answered someone's prayers
  3. answered the call
  4. answered the call of nature
  5. answered the helm
  6. answered to
  7. answered up
  8. answeredst
  9. answerer
  10. answerers
  11. answeres

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Adapted from Wiktionary: answered to (page history and authors); answer to (page history and authors). 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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