react
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- v show a response or a reaction to something
- v act against or in opposition to
She reacts negatively to everything I say - v undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions
The hydrogen and the oxygen react
- In the same way that American rappers react to urban poverty and strife, the Palestinians react to the poverty in the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
- When students are hospitalized--or worse yet, die from alcohol poisoning, which happens about 300 times each year--college presidents tend to react by declaring their campuses dry .
- Neuroimaging studies confirm what scientists long suspected: autistic brains don't react to facial cues the way normal brains do.