reaction
/ɹiˈækʃən/ sustantivo B2En español: reacción
- 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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She was really quite unstrung, for the reaction from her fright and cramped clinging was making itself felt.
Self-possession was fully restored to her, and in the reaction from that horrible moment of powerlessness she recited as she had never done before.
He had a horror of destroying documents, especially those which were connected with his past cases, and yet it was only once in every year or two that he would muster energy to docket and arrange them; for, as I have mentioned somewhere in these incoherent memoirs, the outbursts of passionate energy when he performed the remarkable feats with which his name is associated were followed by reactions of lethargy during which he would lie about with his violin and his books, hardly moving save from the sofa to the table.
Even the triumphant issue of his labours could not save him from reaction after so terrible an exertion, and at a time when Europe was ringing with his name and when his room was literally ankle-deep with congratulatory telegrams I found him a prey to the blackest depression.
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