react

Definition

To act in response.

Etymology

From re- + act. Piecewise doublet of redact.

Example Sentences

• "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."