re-act

Verb

react (third-person singular simple present reacts, present participle reacting, simple past and past participle reacted)

1. (intransitive) To act in response.
   • How did she react to the news?

   Synonyms:

   take

2. (archaic, transitive) To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact.
   • 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.1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
3. (intransitive) 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.
4. (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. (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).

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