Etymology: [ di-'strakt ] (transitive verb.) 14th century. Middle English, from Latin distractus, past participle of distrahere, literally, to draw apart, from dis- + trahere to draw.
Simple past tense and past participle of distract, having one's attention diverted; preoccupied, distraught, distraughted, forstraught, having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety, preoccupied; confused and agitated, If you are distracted, you are not concentrating on something because you are worried or are thinking about something else. She had seemed curiously distracted + distractedly dis·tract·ed·ly He looked up distractedly. `Be with you in a second.'. anxious and unable to think clearly, affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad", Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad, To divert the attention of, disturb, confuse, worry; divert, amuse; draw one's attention away, To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the eye; to distract the attention, To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin, To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; most frequently used in the participle, distracted, To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass, disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill", draw someone's attention away from something; "The thief distracted the bystanders"; "He deflected his competitors", Insane; mad, Separated; drawn asunder, If something distracts you or your attention from something, it takes your attention away from it. Tom admits that playing video games sometimes distracts him from his homework Don't let yourself be distracted by fashionable theories A disturbance in the street distracted my attention. to take someone's attention away from something by making them look at or listen to something else (distractus, past participle of distrahere ), draw someone's attention away from something; "The thief distracted the bystanders"; "He deflected his competitors,
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Simple past tense and past participle of distract
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having one's attention diverted; preoccupied
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distraught
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distraughted
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forstraught
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having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety
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preoccupied; confused and agitated sıfat
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If you are distracted, you are not concentrating on something because you are worried or are thinking about something else. She had seemed curiously distracted + distractedly dis·tract·ed·ly He looked up distractedly. `Be with you in a second.'. anxious and unable to think clearly
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affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
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Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad
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To divert the attention of - "The crowd was distracted by a helicopter hovering over the stadium when the only goal of the game was scored."
To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the eye; to distract the attention
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To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin
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To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; most frequently used in the participle, distracted
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To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass
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disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill"
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draw someone's attention away from something; "The thief distracted the bystanders"; "He deflected his competitors"
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Insane; mad
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Separated; drawn asunder
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If something distracts you or your attention from something, it takes your attention away from it. Tom admits that playing video games sometimes distracts him from his homework Don't let yourself be distracted by fashionable theories A disturbance in the street distracted my attention. to take someone's attention away from something by making them look at or listen to something else (distractus, past participle of distrahere )
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draw someone's attention away from something; "The thief distracted the bystanders"; "He deflected his competitors
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