re-acts

Mostly, the body re-acts to the change of the surrounding circumstances.

Can Leaving the Fan on Overnight Kill You? (No) 2008

Every human individual, whether a child or a centenarian, _re-acts in opposition_ to such an effort at instruction.

Certain Success Norval A. Hawkins

In nature law re-acts upon law, and change induces change, through an almost endless chain of consequences; and it might be asked, why a simple law of matter should thus be exempt from the common lot?

Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence T. Bassnett

In its most comprehensive sense, the oxygen of the air is a food; as although it is admitted by the lungs, it passes into the blood, and there re-acts upon the other food which has passed through the stomach.

The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan

This re-acts on the men, and with everyone asking "When are you going to the Front?" they become almost frantic with impatience.

"The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders John Allister Currie

Again it re-acts, this time beneficially upon the character of the man.

A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science James Leslie Allan Kayll 1908

Even a hobby re-acts upon itself and eats up the man who follows it, unless followed to some useful end.

Power Through Repose Annie Payson Call 1896

When Pierrot recovers he re-acts the murder before a portrait of his wife -- how he tied her down and tickled her to death.

Mike Fletcher A Novel 1892

Love beyond the grave, illusion though you may call it, [44] has a magic and divine potency that re-acts on the living.

Death—and After? Annie Wood Besant 1890

Feeling re-acts upon the external world, interprets it according to its own wants.

George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy George Willis Cooke 1885