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gravitate verb [ ˈɡravɪteɪt ]

• move towards or be attracted to a person or thing.
• "young western Europeans will gravitate to Berlin"
• move, or tend to move, towards a centre of gravity or other attractive force.
• "the electron does not gravitate towards the nucleus"
Similar: move, head, be pulled, drift, tend, have a tendency, lean, incline, veer, be drawn to, be attracted to,
Origin: mid 17th century: from modern Latin gravitat-, from the verb gravitare, from Latin gravitas ‘weight’.


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