chain-react

[ cheyn-ree-akt ]

verb (used without object)

1. to undergo or produce a chain reaction:

   Riots chain-reacted from one area to another in the city.

chain-react

verb

1. intr to undergo a chain reaction

Example Sentences

In an age of geographical compression wrought by globalization, one great crisis can chain-react with another in a different part of the globe: the Far East, for example.

From Washington Post

“Now the pile will chain-react.”

From Literature

It was a great temptation for me to partially withdraw the final cadmium strip and to be the first to make a pile chain-react.

From Time Magazine Archive