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Verb

Meaning

furnish a justifying analysis or explanation

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Synonyms

account carry the can account for pay the piper be responsible for be punished accept responsibility accept the consequences take the rap bear the consequences pay the penalty deal with the consequences face the consequences pay the price suffer consequences

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Antonyms

disappear decamp desert abscond break out clear out

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Hypernyms

declare

Examples

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem. Arthur Miller

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer - at least the answer for myself. Art is an action against death. It is denial of death. Jacques Lipchitz

If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally. Georges Bernanos

Who has done evil will answer for evil. Estonian Proverb

He that exceeds his commission must answer for it at his own cost. Italian Proverb

Who says little has little to answer for. German Proverb

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