reaction
/ɹiˈækʃən/ noun B2- An action or statement in response to a stimulus or other event. · The announcement of the verdict brought a violent reaction.· You were in the courtroom. What is your reaction?
- A transformation in which one or more substances is converted into another by combination or decomposition. · In this reaction, the acid and base will neutralize each other, producing a salt.
- Reactionary politics; a period in which reactionary thought or politics is resurgent or dominant.
- Unpurposeful behavior.
- An icon or emoji appended to a posted message by a user to express their feeling about it.
Plural reactions
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Then a strange reaction took place; he who had just abandoned 5,000,000 endeavored to save the 50,000 francs he had left, and sooner than give them up he resolved to enter again upon a life of privation—he was deluded by the hopefulness that is a premonition of madness.
The baronet is in a black reaction after the excitements of the night.
Still, she felt her pulse, and finding it throb violently she remembered that the best method of dispelling such illusions was to drink, for a draught of the beverage prepared by the doctor to allay her fever seemed to cause a reaction of the brain, and for a short time she suffered less.
I have no doubt, however, that we shall be able to obtain the characteristic reaction.” As he spoke, he threw into the vessel a few white crystals, and then added some drops of a transparent fluid.
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