React

Quick meaning: React is a verb meaning (intransitive) To act in response.

Meaning

(intransitive) To act in response.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, now rare) To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact.
2. (physics, intransitive) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force
3. (chemistry, transitive) To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another.
4. (Internet, intransitive) To post a reaction (icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message).
5. (Internet) An emoji used to express a reaction to a post on social media.
6. (chemistry, intransitive) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.

Example Sentences

Sad reacts only

How did she react to the news?

Every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.

It is somewhat extraordinary, that the offence for which James II, was expelled, that of setting up power by assumption, should be re-acted, under another shape and form, by the parliament that expelled him.

Word Forms

• reacts
• reacting
• reacted

Synonyms for react

Depending on context, synonyms include take, oppose, respond.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include respond, oppose, responding, reply, response, answer.

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