reacting
Sayree-AK-ting/ɹiːˈæktɪŋ/
- 1Present participle of react.
Investors are reacting nervously to the latest interest rate announcement.
Reacting too quickly to criticism often makes the situation worse.
Note
Here the -ing form does double duty. After be it builds the progressive (stocks are reacting), and on its own it heads a noun phrase as a gerund. Most uses are intransitive and take a preposition: reacting to news, reacting with oxygen. The chemist's transitive use puts the substance as a direct object instead: reacting an acid with a base. The online sense, reacting to a post with an emoji, keeps the familiar to pattern.
reacting is a form of react
react, verb: To act in response to something that happens or is said. Full entry
- Spelling
- react → reacting: add -ing
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