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reply | reely |

As a verb reply

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

As a noun reply

is a written or spoken response; part of a conversation.

As an adverb reely is

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reply

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • (intransitive) To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.
    • Please reply to my letter.
    "Sorry I'm late," replied the student.
    He replied that he was not sure.
  • To act or gesture in response.
    • Joanne replied to Pete's insult with a slap to his face.
  • * 1988 , Emmanuel Doe Ziorklui, Ghana: Nkrumah to Rawlings
    • It is a sound to be dreaded until you ascertain that it is being made by friendly forces; even then, your welcome to it must be tempered with some caution, because gunfire usually leads to replying gunfire
  • To repeat something back; to echo.

    • Synonyms

    * respond, answer, retort, answer back, react, rejoin, counter, return, revert, follow up, get back to

    Noun

    (replies)
  • A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.
  • Something given in reply.

    • Synonyms

    * answer, comeback, response, retort, return, account, rejoinder, riposte, reaction

    Anagrams

    * English reporting verbs 1000 English basic words

    reely

    English

    Adverb

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  • * {{quote-book, year=1880, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=Roughing It, Part 6., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But mind you, there ain't anything ever reely lost; everything that people can't understand and don't see the reason of does good if you only hold on and give it a fair shake; Prov'dence don't fire no blank ca'tridges, boys. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=W. W. Jacobs, title=More Cargoes, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="'Shame,' ses most of 'em; an' I reely b'leeve they'd worked theirselves up to that pitch they'd ha' felt disappointed if the skipper had been saved. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1903, author=Harry Leon Wilson, title=The Lions of the Lord, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Thought you was a milishy man, I tell you, from the careless way you hollered--one of Brockman's devils come back a-snoopin', and I didn't crave trouble, but when I saw the Lord appeared to reely want me to cope with the powers of darkness, why, I jest gritted into you for the consolation of Israel. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=George Meredith, title=The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And it reely was the penitent on his two knees, not the lover on his one. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1911, author=Caroline Lockhart, title='Me-Smith', chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=If he ever reely hit you with that fist of his'n, it ud sink in up to the elbow. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1911, author=William Makepeace Thackeray, title=The History of Samuel Titmarsh, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Both your son and your daughter-in-law, ma'am, are of that uncommon sort; they are, now, reely , ma'am." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1916, author=Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart), title=Action Front, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Private Flannigan looked over his shoulder at him, "Mong capitaine," he said, "you ought, you reely ought, to ring up your telephone; turn the handle round an' say something." " }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1918, author=Francis Barton Fox, title=The Heart of Arethusa, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="She ain't seen him for more'n a month reely , but I reckon it does seem 'most a year to her." }}