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reacted

reacted is the simple past and past participle of react.

Meaning of react

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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Questions about reacted

What is reacted the simple past and past participle of?
Reacted is the simple past and past participle of react.

Words near reacted in the dictionary

  1. reactance
  2. reactances
  3. reactant
  4. reactantlike
  5. reactants
  6. reacted
  7. reacter
  8. reacters
  9. reacting
  10. reaction
  11. reaction control system

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