counterattracting

English

Etymology

counterattract + -ing

Pronunciation

Adjective

counterattracting (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Serving to counterattract.
    • 1969, Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science Sentinel, volume 71, The Christian Science Publishing Society, page 970:
      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, University of Delaware Press, →ISBN, page 112, →ISBN:
      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.

Verb

counterattracting

  1. present participle and gerund of counterattract
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