react

react
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reacts, reacting, reacted
1) VERB When you react to something that has happened to you, you behave in a particular way because of it.

[V to n] They reacted violently to the news...

[V adv/prep] It's natural to react with disbelief if your child is accused of bullying...

[V adv/prep] `How did he react?' - `Very calmly.' [Also V]

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2) VERB If you react against someone's way of behaving, you deliberately behave in a different way because you do not like the way they behave.

[V against n] She reacted against the mindlessness and luxury of their lives...

[V against n] My father never saved and perhaps I reacted against that.

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3) VERB If you react to a substance such as a drug, or to something you have touched, you are affected unpleasantly or made ill by it.

[V to n] Someone allergic to milk is likely to react to cheese...

[V to n] He reacted very badly to the radiation therapy. [Also V]

4) V-RECIP When one chemical substance reacts with another, or when two chemical substances react, they combine chemically to form another substance.

[V with n] Calcium reacts with water but less violently than sodium and potassium do...

[pl-n V] Under normal circumstances, these two gases react readily to produce carbon dioxide and water.


English dictionary. 2008.

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