re-act
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of re-act
Example Sentences
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I thank you Firozali A.Mulla DBA and we were too slow to re-act.
From Economist ● Jun. 1, 2012
It is an interest in emotion, thought, will, rather than in scenes, events, actions, which express and re-act on emotions, thoughts, will.
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Andrew Cecil Bradley
God has ordained that the child should re-act on the parent in his riper years, that the daughter should become in her turn the counsellor and the confidant of her mother.
From The Young Maiden by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey
This developed magnetism will re-act upon a coil of wire, and so move a galvanometer needle.
From The Telephone An Account of the Phenomena of Electricity, Magnetism, and Sound, as Involved in Its Action by A. E. (Amos Emerson) Dolbear
Our inherited organisation inclines us to re-act in certain ways to certain stimuli because such reactions have been useful in the past in preserving our species.
From Human Nature in Politics Third Edition by Graham Wallas
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