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Stimulate vs React - What's the difference?

stimulate | react |

As verbs the difference between stimulate and react

is that stimulate is to encourage into action while react is .

stimulate

English

Verb

(stimulat)
  • To encourage into action.
  • To arouse an organism to functional activity.
  • Synonyms

    * (encourage) encourage, induce, provoke * (arouse) animate, arouse, energize, energise, excite, perk up

    Antonyms

    * (arouse) de-energize, sedate, stifle

    Anagrams

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    react

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact.
  • to react''' a play; the same scenes were '''reacted at Rome
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * reactive * reactor

    Anagrams

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