counterattracting
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌkaʊntəɹəˈtɹaktɪŋ/
Adjective
editcounterattracting (not comparable)
- (rare) Serving to counterattract.
- 1969, Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science Sentinel, volume 71, The Christian Science Publishing Society, page 970:
- There are no counterattracting or counteracting forces in God or in His universe, including man.
- 1992, Evelyn Gajowski, The Art of Loving: Female Subjectivity and Male Discursive Traditions in Shakespeare’s Tragedies, University of Delaware Press, →ISBN, page 112, →ISBN:
- His emotional dependency on her is matched and balanced by her dependency on him in a continuous, reciprocal, attracting and counterattracting, responsive and counter-responsive interrelationship.
Verb
editcounterattracting
- present participle and gerund of counterattract