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If something a_______ people or animals, it has features that cause them to come to it.If something attracts people or animals, it has features that cause them to come to it.
The Cardiff Bay project is attracting many visitors.
Warm weather has attracted the flat fish close to shore.
Summer attracts visitors to the countryside.
word attract
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If something attracts people or animals, it has features that cause them to come to it.
The Cardiff Bay project is attracting many visitors.
Warm weather has attracted the flat fish close to shore.
Summer attracts visitors to the countryside.
If someone or something attracts you, they have particular qualities which cause you to like or admire them. If a particular quality attracts you to a person or thing, it is the reason why you like them.
He wasn't sure he'd got it right, although the theory attracted him by its logic.
What first attracted me to her was her incredible experience of life.
More people would be attracted to cycling if conditions were right.
If you are attracted to someone, you are interested in them sexually.
In spite of her hostility, she was attracted to him.
I was married to a man who had ceased to attract me.
He was nice looking, but I wasn't deeply attracted to him.
If something attracts support, publicity, or money, it receives support, publicity, or money.
President Mwinyi said his country would also like to attract investment from private companies.
Opinion polls suggest that the two rebels have attracted a lot of sympathy.
If one object attracts another object, it causes the second object to move towards it.
Anything with strong gravity attracts other things to it.
inflections attractsattractingattractedattracted
cefr-level B1

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