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verb direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
verb be attractive to
verb exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away
originFrom Latin attractus, past participle of attrahere (“to draw to, attract”), from ad (“to”) + trahere (“to draw”).
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