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11attract — 01. The meat they ve been putting in the garbage is starting to [attract] rats. 02. His wife is very [attractive], and always gets lots of attention from the men at parties. 03. We put a rotten fish head in the trap to [attract] the shrimp. 04.… …
12attract — at|tract [ ə trækt ] verb transitive *** 1. ) to make someone interested in something so that they do it or come to see or hear it: The show attracts viewers from every sector of society. They hope to attract more foreign investors. Tourists are… …
13attract — verb Etymology: Middle English, from Latin attractus, past participle of attrahere, from ad + trahere to pull, draw Date: 15th century transitive verb to cause to approach or adhere: as a. to pull to or draw toward oneself or itself < a magnet… …
14attract — at|tract W2S2 [əˈtrækt] v [T] [Date: 1400 1500; : Latin; Origin: , past participle of attrahere, from ad to + trahere to pull ] 1.) to make someone interested in something, or make them want to take part in something attract sb to sth ▪ What… …
15attract — [[t]ətræ̱kt[/t]] ♦♦ attracts, attracting, attracted 1) VERB If something attracts people or animals, it has features that cause them to come to it. [V n] The Cardiff Bay project is attracting many visitors... [V n adv/prep] Warm weather has… …
16attract — verb (T) 1 to make someone interested in something, or make them want to take part in something: attract sb to sth: What attracted me most to the job was the chance to travel. | attract interest/attention etc: The story has attracted a lot of… …
17attract — attractable, adj. attractableness, n. attractingly, adv. attractor, attracter, n. /euh trakt /, v.t. 1. to draw by a physical force causing or tending to cause to approach, adhere, or unite; pull (opposed to repel): The gravitational force of the …
18attract — verb Attract is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑college, ↑festival, ↑magnet Attract is used with these nouns as the object: ↑applicant, ↑attention, ↑audience, ↑bee, ↑business, ↑butterfly, ↑buyer, ↑ …
19attract — v. (D; tr.) to attract to (a crowd was attracted to the scene of the accident) * * * [ə trækt] (D; tr.) to attract to (a crowd was attracted to the scene of the accident) …
20attract — [15] Etymologically, attract means literally ‘pull something towards one’. It comes from attract , the past participial stem of the Latin verb attrahere, a compound formed from the prefix ad ‘to’ and the verb trahere ‘pull’. It was quite a late… …
