React and Backfire

verb

• Show a response or a reaction to something.
  • synonyms: respond
• Act against or in opposition to.
  • usage: "She reacts negatively to everything I say"
  • synonyms: oppose
• Undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions.
  • usage: "The hydrogen and the oxygen react"

• (v.t.) To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.
• (v.i.) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
• (v.i.) 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.

noun

• The backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired.
  • synonyms: blowback
• A loud noise made by the explosion of fuel in the manifold or exhaust of an internal combustion engine.
• A fire that is set intentionally in order to slow an approaching forest fire or grassfire by clearing a burned area in its path.
• A miscalculation that recoils on its maker.
  • synonyms: boomerang

verb

• Come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect.
  • usage: "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble"
  • synonyms: backlash, recoil
• Emit a loud noise as a result of undergoing a backfire.
  • usage: "My old car backfires all the time"
• Set a controlled fire to halt an advancing forest to prairie fire. .