Crossword clues for attracted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Attract \At*tract"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Attracted; p. pr. & vb. n. Attracting.] [L. attractus, p. p. of attrahere; ad + trahere to draw. See Trace, v. t.]
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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.
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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.
Wiktionary
drawn towards v
(en-past of: attract)
Usage examples of "attracted".
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.
In these stories Leskov appeared as a champion of Orthodoxy and conservative ideals, and they attracted towards him the good will of many high-placed persons, in particular the Empress Marie Alexandrovna, the wife of Alexander II.
But he was still more powerfully attracted by the eternal problems of good and evil, and of life and death.
They were the romantic party that attracted all the hot-headed and adventurous youth.
This lyrical style was the first aspect of his prose that attracted general attention to his individuality.
Korolenko, rather than of Gorky, and it was by stories of this kind that he first attracted attention.
His stories soon attracted general attention and were warmly welcomed by many critics but generally censured for an exclusive exuberance and elaboration of style.