counterattracts

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