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verb

Attract v. t. (past & past part. attracted; pres. part. attracting)

To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition. "All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another."

To draw by influence of a moral or emotional kind; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure; as, to attract admirers. "Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze."

Synonyms: To draw; allure; invite; entice; influence.

noun

Attract n. Attraction. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Attract'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Attract" Quotes from Famous Books

... while not common, nests in all manner of localities on the Farallones, concealing their eggs under any rock or in any crevice that may attract their fancy. Their single white egg is only faintly if at all wreathed with fine dust-like specks of reddish brown. Size 1.15 x .86. Data.—Farallone Is., California, June 12, 1895. Egg laid on sand in crevice at the base of a stone wall; well ...

— The Bird Book • Chester A. Reed

... crowd pressed towards another object of curiosity, and I followed it, under the guidance of my Asmodeus, to a music room, splendidly fitted up, and filled with the most select orchestra of the capital. But it was an amateur that was there to attract all eyes and ears. "Madame de Fontenai," whispered the Jew, as he glanced towards a woman of a remarkably expressive countenance and statue-like form, half sitting, half reposing, on a sofa—surrounded by a group soliciting her for a "few notes, a suspiration, a soupcon"—of, ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 • Various

... Ward had awakened a new perception of the humorous idea—a humor of repression, of understatement. He forgot this often enough, then and afterward, and gave his riotous fancy free rein; but on the whole the simpler, less florid form seemingly began to attract ...

— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine

... not original enough to attract notice," he replied with kindly irony. "There is almost an epidemic of it. Let us hope we shall have an ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... attract the attention of the four men, Roy strolled to the depot platform, taking care to get on the side opposite that on which was the elaborately-dressed youth. The sharpers did not see Roy, who kept in the ...

— The Boy from the Ranch - Or Roy Bradner's City Experiences • Frank V. Webster

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