counterattract

Verb

counterattract (third-person singular simple present counterattracts, present participle counterattracting, simple past and past participle counterattracted)

1. (rare) To attract at the expense of someone or something else.
   • The provision of nurses for them is a major problem in itself, relieved to a large extent in county districts by part-time workers, but remaining only partially solved by such methods in the cities, where more congenial occupations counterattract them.1948, Glasgow Medical Journal, volume 147, page 111
   • ante 1979–2002: American Institute of Physics, Current Physics Index, volume 27: part 1, page 6,393 ⁽¹⁹⁷⁹⁾ or 4,917 ⁽²⁰⁰²⁾
     Flexible polymers also counterattract.