React vs Reciprocate - What's the difference?
react | reciprocate |
To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact.
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.
To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
To mutually give and take something; to interchange.
To give something in response.
To move backwards and forwards, like a piston.
* Dryden
To counter, retort or retaliate.
As verbs the difference between react and reciprocate
is that react is while reciprocate is to mutually give and take something; to interchange.react
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Verb
(en verb)- to react''' a play; the same scenes were '''reacted at Rome
Derived terms
* reactive * reactorAnagrams
*reciprocate
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Verb
(en-verb)- One brawny smith the puffing bellows plies, / And draws and blows reciprocating air.