Past tense of react
regular verb
The past tense of react is reacted. The past participle is also reacted.
Forms of react
| Base form (V1) | react /ɹiːˈækt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | reacted |
| Past participle (V3) | reacted |
| Present participle | reacting |
| Third person singular | reacts |
Reacted in a sentence
- Notwithstanding I was provoked, I ought not to have reacted so violently.From the entry notwithstanding
- The employees reacted with guarded optimism to the new agreement reached by their trade union.From the entry guarded
- Benzophenone is reacted with phosphorus pentachloride to give diphenyldichloromethane.From the entry diphenyldichloromethane
- Twenty-seven proteins distinctively reacted with human plasma following environmental exposure or clinical melioidosis.2012, Melioidosis: New Insights for the Healthcare Professional, page 7. From the entry melioidosis
- Captain Jenkins reacted as commanders had been trained in peacetime: "Counter-illuminate!" he shouted.2011, James D. Hornfischer, “28: Into the Light”, in Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN…. From the entry open fire
Meaning of react
- verb To act in response.
- verb To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact.
- verb To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force.
Questions about the past tense of react
- What is the past tense of react?
- The past tense of react is reacted.
- What is the past participle of react?
- The past participle of react is reacted.
- Is react a regular or irregular verb?
- React is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: react (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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