Thesaurus: attract

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1. v. t. 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.
2. v. t. 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.
3. n. Attraction.
4. v. direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
5. v. be attractive to
6. v. exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away
7. 1. 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. Derham. 2. 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. Milton. Syn. -- To draw; allure; invite; entice; influence. Attraction. [Obs.] Hudibras.
8. Attraction. [Obs.] Hudibras.
9. v:100 v. direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes v. be attractive to v. exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away