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attract
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Word definitions for attract in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Attract \At*tract"\, n. Attraction. [Obs.] --Hudibras.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES arouse/generate/attract interest (= make people interested ) ▪ This extraordinary story has aroused interest in many quarters. attract an audience (= make people want to watch ) ▪ The first show attracted a television ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To pull toward without touching.
Usage examples of attract.
There are countless things in the mind, and its least parts are associated and conjoined in accord with affections or as one thing attracts another.
Rudy shivered, at once repelled and curiously attracted, a fear that was oddly like acrophobia coming over him.
Clovis attracted the respect and allegiance of the national confederacy.
A bacterium, moving blindly through a cloud of hovering antibodies, seemed to attract them, to pull them in to itself.
In the bathroom mirror she appraised her looks, wondering if she could attract another husband at her age.
The smell of aniseed would have attracted the other hounds as much as it did Sekhmet, but, of course, the answer is that all the Pharaohs were shut safely away, so Sekhmet was the only dog available.
It was precisely their foreign, un-Muscovite spirit that attracted the young boyars and scribes to these stories.
In 1773 the Pugachev Rebellion found him on leave of absence in Kazan, where he attracted the attention of persons in power by writing for the nobility of the province an address with expressions of loyalty to the Empress.
The poem contained some passages expressive of liberal sentiment, and these, much rather than its obscenity, attracted the attention of the police.
His early verses attracted the attention of Stankevich, the famous head of the idealist circle, who introduced Koltsov to his Moscow friends.
His political articles and memoranda written in the revolutionary year 1848 attracted official attention.
Their fun, which was what attracted the reader above all, is simple and unadulterated.
Pisemsky was attracted by their enthusiasm for originality and raciness.
Tolstoy began to be attracted by the recent past of the Russian society, and planned a novel on the subject of the Decembrists.
The rapid growth of capitalistic enterprises attracted numerous workers, and the number of engineers was many times multiplied.