Attract

Pronunciation

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Verb

1. Template:Transitive If something attracts you, it makes you interested in it.

   She jumped up and down to attract attention.

   A cheaper price should also help attract customers.

2. Template:Transitive If you are attracted to someone, you want to have a relationship with them, often a sexual relationship.

   Boys were mad about her, attracted by her good looks.

3. Template:Transitive If $x$ attracts $y$, $x$ pull $y$ to $x$.

   The city hoped the new roads would attract businesses.

   With magnets, opposite poles attract each other.

Antonyms

• repel

Related words

• attracted
• attractive
• unattractive
• unattractively
• attraction
• attractively
• attractiveness