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Encharge vs Respond - What's the difference?

encharge | respond |

As verbs the difference between encharge and respond

is that encharge is (obsolete|transitive) to give to somebody as a charge; to entrust with a duty or task while respond is (intransitive) to say something in return; to answer; to reply.

As a noun respond is

a response.

encharge

English

Verb

(encharg)
  • (obsolete) To give to somebody as a charge; to entrust with a duty or task.
  • * Jeffrey
  • His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with.
    (Webster 1913)

    respond

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive) To say something in return; to answer; to reply.
  • to respond to a question or an argument
  • To act in return; to exhibit some action or effect in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response; to accord.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
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  • (ambitransitive) To correspond with; to suit.
  • * Fairfax
  • For his great deeds respond his speeches great.
  • To satisfy; to answer.
  • The prisoner was held to respond the judgment of the court.

    Derived terms

    * responder * responsive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A response.
  • A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.
  • (architecture) A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost of an arch.
  • See also

    * react

    References

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