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react

//ɹiːˈækt//

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Note for react

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Forms

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)
react
past (v2)
reacted
past participle (v3)
reacted
present participle
reacting
3rd person singular
reacts

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
reacts

Definitions

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

  1. 1.To act in response.

    • How did she react to the news?
  2. 2.To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force

    • Every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
  3. 3.To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.

  4. 4.To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another.

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.An emoji used to express a reaction to a post on social media.

Frequency

Overall

Uncommon· #2885

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Rare
General reading & writing
Uncommon
Academic
Rare
Literature
Rare

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Word family

Etymology

From re- + act.

Piecewise doublet of redact.

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