Meaning

(intransitive) To act in response..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

How did she react to the news?

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.

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

Sad reacts only

Word Forms

• reacts
• reacting
• reacted
• reäct

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Use react when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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