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react

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5 lettersPronunciation /ɹiːˈækt/Part of speech verbSorted acertStarts with REnds with T1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions

Word origin

From re- + act. Piecewise doublet of redact.

Used in a sentence

  • How did she react to the news?
  • 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.
  • Every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.

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