react
/ɹiːˈækt/verb2 syllables
React means: show a response or a reaction to something.
Synonyms for react3
verb, as in show a response or a reaction to something
verb, as in act against or in opposition to
What does react mean?3
verb
1
show a response or a reaction to something
2
act against or in opposition to“She reacts negatively to everything I say”
3
undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions“The hydrogen and the oxygen react”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with react?29
three syllables
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React in a sentence
- Miroslav's blood was boiling, but he knew better than to react.Amastan
- When we broke the news to him, he didn't react the way we expected.ddnktr
- If the other doesn't react to me, i am indeed unimportant to him.manlytoaj
- If someone irritates you, it is best not to react immediately.CK
- I try to react to all comments, but this one somehow escaped my gaze.rul
- It happened so suddenly we didn't have time to react.CK
- How did he react to the bad news?Source_VOA
- I didn't know how to react to that.CM
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Forms of react
as a verb
- past tense
- reacted
- present participle
- reacting
- third-person singular
- reacts
- past participle
- reacted