traction
grip or pulling force
Root
- tract / trah: draw, pull, handle, or manage
Other words with the tract / trah root
- abstract: existing as an idea rather than a concrete thing
- attract: to draw toward
- detract: to take away from value or attention
- distract: to draw attention away
- extract: to draw or pull out
- intractable: very hard to manage, solve, or control
- protract: to lengthen or draw out
- retract: to draw back or take back
Traction is pulling force made visible.
The tires lost traction on the wet hill.