react
VerbUS[ree-akt]/riˈækt/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Verb (3)reacts, reacted, reacting
- show a response or a reaction to somethingSynonyms: respondMore general act, moveMore specific refuse, accept, answer, wonder, explode, greet, notice, respond, stool, treat +4 more
- act against or in opposition to“She reacts negatively to everything I say”Synonyms: opposeMore general act, moveMore specific pursue, buck
- undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions“The hydrogen and the oxygen react”More general change state, turnMore specific bromate, brominate
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Translations
Verb to act in response
- Spanish
- reaccionar
- French
- réagir
- Italian
- reagire
- Portuguese
- reagir
- Turkish
- tepki vermek
- Russian
- реаги́ровать reagírovatʹ
- Chinese
- 反应 fǎnyìng
- Polish
- zareagować
- Swedish
- reagera
- Korean
- 반응하다 baneunghada
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Re·act′ (rē-ăkt′), transitive verb
To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.
Re·act′ (rē-ăkt′), intransitive verb
1. To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
2. To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54