leave vs react

leave

verb
  • To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with. 

  • To cause, to result in. 

  • To let be or do without interference. 

  • To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely. 

  • To transfer possession of after death. 

  • To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant. 

  • To produce leaves or foliage. 

  • To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself. 

  • To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit. 

  • To depart; to go away from a certain place or state. 

  • To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with. 

  • To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project). 

noun
  • The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball. 

  • The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones). 

  • Permission to be absent; time away from one's work. 

  • Permission. 

react

verb
  • To act in response. 

  • To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition. 

  • To post a reaction (icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message). 

  • To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force 

  • To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another. 

noun
  • An emoji used to express a reaction to a post on social media. 

How often have the words leave and react occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )