React

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.

2. To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.