counterattracts

Verb

 * 1) * 1967: the Chemical Society of Great Britain and the University of Nottingham, The alkali metals: an International Symposium held at Nottingham on 19 th–22 nd July 1966; organised jointly by the University of Nottingham and the Chemical Society, № 22, page 434 (self-published by the Chemical Society)
 * Hence, the oxygen vacancy loses some of its “negative charge” and takes on a “positive character” that counterattracts the leakage of negative charge.
 * Hence, the oxygen vacancy loses some of its “negative charge” and takes on a “positive character” that counterattracts the leakage of negative charge.