distract
/dɪˈstɹækt/ verb B2- 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 divert (attention).
- To make crazy or insane; to drive to distraction.
He/she/it distracts · Past distracted · Past participle distracted · -ing form distracting
Verb forms
- Base form
- distract
- He/she/it
- distracts
- Past
- distracted
- Past participle
- distracted
- -ing form
- distracting
From the library
Certainly, though Valentine still labored under dreadful nervous excitement, she was better; and moreover, Monte Cristo had told him when, half distracted, he had rushed to the count’s house, that if she were not dead in two hours she would be saved.
She entered now, a tall and beautiful woman of thirty, reserved and self-possessed to a remarkable degree, very different from the tragic and distracted figure I had pictured.
At the end of the fortnight Anne took to “haunting” the post office also, in the distracted company of Jane, Ruby, and Josie, opening the Charlottetown dailies with shaking hands and cold, sinkaway feelings as bad as any experienced during the Entrance week.
I shall go distracted.”
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