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counterattracting

UK/ˌkaʊntəɹəˈtɹaktɪŋ/

counterattracting adjective: serving to counterattract. Also the present participle and gerund of counterattract.

Adjective

counterattracting (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Serving to counterattract.
    • There are no counterattracting or counteracting forces in God or in His universe, including man.1969, Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science Sentinel, volume 71, The Christian Science Publishing Society, page 970
    • 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.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

Also used as

counterattracting is also the present participle and gerund of counterattract.

Origin of counterattracting

counterattract + -ing

Questions about counterattracting

What does counterattracting mean?
Counterattracting means serving to counterattract.
What part of speech is counterattracting?
Counterattracting is an adjective.
How do you pronounce counterattracting?
Counterattracting is pronounced /ˌkaʊntəɹəˈtɹaktɪŋ/ (UK).

Words near counterattracting in the dictionary

  1. counterattitudinal
  2. counterattract
  3. counterattractant
  4. counterattractants
  5. counterattracted
  6. counterattracting
  7. counterattraction
  8. counterattractions
  9. counterattractive
  10. counterattracts
  11. counterauthoritarian

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