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reaction 1. opposition to change, esp political change, or a desire to return to a former condition or system 2. a response indicating a person's feelings or emotional attitude 3. Med a. any effect produced by the action of a drug, esp an adverse effect b. any effect produced by a substance (allergen) to which a person is allergic the simultaneous equal and opposite force that acts on a body whenever it exerts a force on another body 4. short for chemical reaction, nuclear reaction How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The entire ship's crew were undergoing a nervous excitement, of which I can give no idea: they could not eat, they could not sleep--twenty times a day, a misconception or an optical illusion of some sailor seated on the taffrail, would cause dreadful perspirations, and these emotions, twenty times repeated, kept us in a state of excitement so violent that a reaction was unavoidable. Their popularity, so general at first, had suffered afterward; mainly because they had been TOO popular, and so a natural reaction had followed. Such were the very natural reflections of the crowd, and hence the reaction in their feelings. |
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