Definition of "gravitate" []

• To move in response to the force of gravity. (verb-intransitive)
• To move downward. (verb-intransitive)
• To be attracted by or as if by an irresistible force: "My excuse must be that all Celts gravitate towards each other” ( Oscar Wilde). (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "She is the one person in the family that people just kind of gravitate to ..."
• "That's just what people kind of gravitate towards."
• "Then you have got Mitt Romney, who is sitting out there, who the social conservatives kind of gravitate towards, so the mix in the Republican primary is going to be very different than for Hillary."