counterattracting
English
Etymology
counterattract + -ing
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌkaʊntəɹəˈtɹaktɪŋ/
Adjective
counterattracting (not comparable)
- (rare) Serving to counterattract.
- 1969: Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science Sentinel, volume 71, page 970 (The Christian Science Publishing Society)
- There are no counterattracting or counteracting forces in God or in His universe, including man.
- 1992: Evelyn Gajowski, The Art of Loving: Female Subjectivity and Male Discursive Traditions in Shakespeare’s Tragedies, page 112 (University of Delaware Press; →ISBN, 9780874133981)
- 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.
- 1969: Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science Sentinel, volume 71, page 970 (The Christian Science Publishing Society)
Verb
counterattracting
- present participle of counterattract