re-act

[ ree-akt ]

verb (used with object)

1. to act or perform again.

re-act

/ riːˈækt /

verb

1. tr to act or perform again

Word History and Origins

Origin of re-act¹

First recorded in 1650–60; re- + act

Example Sentences

The fever has subsided, only because exhausted nature could re-act no longer.

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Elementary carbon is found in nature in three different forms, but these all re-act chemically in the same way.

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Even on Sunday as they rode away to church, they were too tired and too worried to re-act to the beauties of the landscape.

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When I say stiffness, I mean the steel-like elasticity which causes it to re-act with such quickness.

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We believe it to be a direct attack upon individual liberty, and an evil that will re-act upon those who attempt to establish it.

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