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co-act

co-act is the alternative form of coact.

Meaning of coact

Verb (1)

coact (third-person singular simple present coacts, present participle coacting, simple past and past participle coacted)

  1. (obsolete) To compel, constrain, force.
    • The faith and service of Christ ought to be voluntary and not coacted.1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC

Verb (2)

coact (third-person singular simple present coacts, present participle coacting, simple past and past participle coacted)

  1. (rare) To work together.
    Synonyms:
    cooperate

See all 3 meanings of coact

Forms of co-act

third-person singular presentco-acts
present participleco-acting
past participleco-acted
pastco-acted

Origin of co-act

From co- + act.

Questions about co-act

What is co-act the alternative form of?
Co-act is the alternative form of coact.

Words near co-act in the dictionary

  1. co
  2. CO detector
  3. CO$
  4. co's
  5. co-
  6. co-act
  7. co-acted
  8. co-acting
  9. co-acts
  10. co-Adamite
  11. co-Adamites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: co-act (page history and authors); coact (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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