attracting
- 1Present participle and gerund of attract.
The new exhibit is attracting visitors from across the country.
Attracting investment to rural areas remains a challenge for local planners.
Note
A single -ing spelling does two jobs here. After be it is the progressive verb (the magnet was attracting iron filings); at the head of a phrase it acts as a gerund, standing as subject or object. Either way it stays transitive and keeps every meaning of attract, including the easily missed one of incurring something unwanted, as in attracting criticism or attracting suspicion.
attracting is a form of attract
attract, verb: To draw someone's interest, attention, or desire through emotional, moral, or other personal appeal; to invite or allure. Full entry
- Spelling
- attract → attracting: add -ing
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