The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gravitate \Grav"i*tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gravitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Gravitating.] [Cf. F. graviter. See Gravity.] To obey the law of gravitation; to exert a force or pressure, or tend to move, under the influence of gravitation; to tend in any direction or toward any object.
Why does this apple fall to the ground? Because all
bodies gravitate toward each other.
--Sir W.
Hamilton.
Politicians who naturally gravitate towards the
stronger party.
--Macaulay.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: gravitate)
Usage examples of "gravitated".
Mostly the newcomers seemed bored with it all and quickly gravitated into their own little clump at one end of the room, where a floor-to-ceiling tapestry revealed the glorious history of Veck while hiding the gunports behind which a dozen household troops supervised the gathering.
Bob knew how to talk to men like that, and so they had spread the word among themselves and gravitated toward the King’s Own Black Torrent Guards, and continued to gravitate still.
Learning to manipulate brushes, mixing paints—at first she gravitated toward the darkest colors and slathered them on canvas so that not a single centimeter remained "light.
As soon as he recovered, he gravitated toward the kitchen, willing to do any job cheerfully.
She knew Richard's sexual appetite, and she also knew women automatically gravitated to him, as if he gave off subliminal signals that said he liked it slow, and often.
Actors and musicians mostly gravitated to Greenwich Village, but scome of the overflow ended up in the Lower East Side.
Call it chemistry, call it biology—hell, call it voodoo—for whatever reason, she had gravitated to him like a nail to a magnet, and everything he had done after that had only intensified her feelings.
Son of devout Naderites, he had gravitated to the Geshels shortly after the opening of the Way, as so many others had.
It was rather as if they were beginning to learn that they could not have a great deal in common with the rest of the village, and so gravitated naturally towards a group of their own kind.
Those passengers who still retained a taste for scenery gravitated to the lounge around the waist of the ship, from whose three-mile circumference the starbow could be seen like a rainbow sash.
They gravitated to the rebellion against the Reithrese more because I'm known as the Dun Wolf and Beltran is called the Red Tiger than out of any real hatred of the Reithrese.