Word Meanings - REACT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REACT)

• Regain
• Recover
• react
• reprocure
• reobtain
• retrieve
• repossess

Related words: (words related to REACT)

• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• REOBTAIN
  To obtain again.
• REPOSSESS
  To possess again; as, to repossess the land. Pope. To repossess one's self of , to acquire again .
• REACTOR
  A choking coil.
• RECOVERANCE
  Recovery.
• RETRIEVER
  A dor, or a breed of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve, or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded. (more info) 1. One who retrieves.
• RECOVERABLE
  Capable of being recovered or regained; capable of being brought back to a former condition, as from sickness, misfortune, etc.; obtainable from a debtor or possessor; as, the debt is recoverable; goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable.
• RECOVERY
  The obtaining in a suit at law of a right to something by a verdict and judgment of court. 4. The getting, or gaining, of something not previously had. "Help be past recovery." Tusser. 5. In rowing, the act of regaining the proper position
• REACTANCE
  The influence of a coil of wire upon an alternating current passing through it, tending to choke or diminish the current, or the similar influence of a condenser; inductive resistance. Reactance is measured in ohms. The reactance of a circuit is
• RETRIEVE
  , F. retrouver; pref. re- re- + OF. trover 1. To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence. With late repentance now they would retrieve The bodies they forsook,
• RETRIEVEMENT
  Retrieval.
• RECOVEREE
  The person against whom a judgment is obtained in common recovery.
• REGAIN
  To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again. Syn. -- To recover; reobtain; repossess; retrieve.
• REPOSSESSION
  The act or the state of possessing again.
• REACTIVE
  Having power to react; tending to reaction; of the nature of reaction. -- Re*act"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*act"ive*ness, n.
• REACTION
  The mutual or reciprocal action of chemical agents upon each other, or the action upon such chemical agents of some form of energy, as heat, light, or electricity, resulting in a chemical change in one or more of these agents, with the production
• REACT
  1. To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state. 2. To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect,
• RECOVERER
  One who recovers.
• REACTIONARY
  Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• IRRECOVERABLE
  Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury. That which is past is gone and irrecoverable. Bacon. Syn. -- Irreparable; irretrievable; irremediable; unalterable; incurable; hopeless.
• ABREACTION
  See BELOW
• FOREPOSSESSED
  1. Holding or held formerly in possession. 2. Preoccupied; prepossessed; preëngaged. Not extremely forepossessed with prejudice. Bp. Sanderson.
• WIDAL'S TEST; WIDAL TEST; WIDAL'S REACTION; WIDAL REACTION
  A test for typhoid fever based on the fact that blood serum of one affected, in a bouillon culture of typhoid bacilli, causes the bacilli to agglutinate and lose their motility.
• PREPOSSESSION
  1. Preoccupation; prior possession. Hammond. 2. Preoccupation of the mind by an opinion, or impression, already formed; preconceived opinion; previous impression; bias; -- generally, but not always, used in a favorable sense; as, the prepossessions
• PREPOSSESS
  1. To preoccupy, as ground or land; to take previous possession of. Dryden. 2. To preoccupy, as the mind or heart, so as to preclude other things; hence, to bias or prejudice; to give a previous inclination to, for or against anything; esp., to
• PREACTION
  Previous action.