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say it: uh-TRAKT
attract is a verb meaning "direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes". It is pronounced /əˈtɹækt/ — uh-TRAKT. It carries 3 recorded senses.
direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
“Her good looks attract the stares of many men”
“The ad pulled in many potential customers”
“This pianist pulls huge crowds”
“The store owner was happy that the ad drew in many new customers”
exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away
“the gravitational pull of a planet attracts other bodies”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for attract come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.