この”こたえた”はどいう意味？
ひどく蒸し暑い日だったので、これはこたえた.

In above sentence, can anyone help me with understanding the meaning of "こたえた"? I looked it up in the dictionary, but only find out "堪える" or “答える”. But the translation said it means "tired". I'm a little bit confused.

The same word occurs in the following sentence too.

このだらだらした上り下りが思いのほかあしにこたえた

Many thanks in advance.

Question

この”こたえた”はどいう意味？
ひどく蒸し暑い日だったので、これはこたえた.

In above sentence, can anyone help me with understanding the meaning of "こたえた"? I looked it up in the dictionary, but only find out "堪える" or “答える”. But the translation said it means "tired". I'm a little bit confused.

The same word occurs in the following sentence too.

このだらだらした上り下りが思いのほかあしにこたえた

Many thanks in advance.

Answer

In this case, the word "こたえる" means "to be hard/tough on __"

So, your sentence 『ひどく蒸し暑い日だったので、これはこたえた』
literally means "The weather was terribly hot and humid, which was quite hard/tough on me."

So the other sentence 『このだらだらした上り下りが思いのほかあしにこたえた』
literally means "This interminable up-and-down slope was tougher on my legs than I anticipated."

Answer

There's also 応える which means [to respond;** to be strain**;  to have an affect on ]

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