counterattract

present singular third person counterattracts · participle present counterattracting · participle past counterattracted · past counterattracted

1. rareTo attract at the expense of someone or something else.

   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.

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   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

   If the cell has amongst its armament such a latent potential matching the novel compound we are presenting, and if that compound can counterattract the repressor away from the DNA, synthesis of the enzyme can then proceed, the newly formed enzyme starts degrading the compound, and acclimation by enzyme induction is accomplished.

   1986, Robert Donald Swisher, Surfactant biodegradation, Marcel Dekker, →ISBN, page 162, →ISBN