Antonyms for re-acted


Grammar : Verb
Spell : ree-akt
Phonetic Transcription : riˈækt


Definition of re-acted

  • As in operate : verb perform, function
  • As in perform : verb carry out, accomplish
  • As in react : verb respond; conduct oneself
  • As in recoil : verb shrink away
  • As in reply : verb answer
  • As in respond : verb act in answer to something
  • As in return : verb go back, turn back
  • As in return : verb give back, send back
  • As in reverberate : verb vibrate in sound
  • As in revert : verb return to an earlier, less-developed condition
  • As in take : verb accept, adopt; use
  • As in behave : verb function
  • As in work : verb manipulate, operate
  • As in boomerang : verb backfire
  • As in acknowledge : verb verbally recognize receipt of something
  • As in redound : verb be deflected
  • As in act : verb behave in a certain way
  • As in recrudesce : verb return
  • As in reecho : verb echo
  • As in echo : verb repeat, copy
  • As in function : verb perform, work
Example sentences :
  • This re-acted on his desire to make the happiness greater and the pain less everywhere about him.
  • Extract from : « A Rough Shaking » by George MacDonald
  • Only such cows shall be admitted to the herd as have not re-acted to a diagnostic injection of tuberculin.
  • Extract from : « Outlines of dairy bacteriology » by H. L. Russell
  • One lesson he had learnt at Harrow and Oxford so thoroughly that he re-acted to it even in this supreme crisis of his life.
  • Extract from : « The Jervaise Comedy » by J. D. Beresford
  • Six times the scene is re-acted, and a seventh bull, a toro de gracia, is added at the first bull-fight of the year.
  • Extract from : « Things seen in Spain » by C. Gasquoine Hartley
  • The warders, whose faces I knew so well, were always behind me; the antics of the madmen were re-acted with merciless fidelity.
  • Extract from : « My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum » by Herman Charles Merivale

Synonyms for re-acted

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