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distract
verb distracted, distracting
    1. To divert their attention from it.
      Form: distract someone from something (usually)
      Form: distract someone's attention from something
    2. To entertain or amuse someone.
      Thesaurus: divert, amuse, entertain, beguile, engross.
    3. To confuse, worry or anger someone.
      Thesaurus: puzzle, confuse, confound, trouble, torment, disconcert, sidetrack, mislead, bewilder, madden, disturb, perplex, discompose, faze, harass.
Derivative: distracted
adj
    Troubled or very anxious
      Thesaurus: troubled, confused, confounded, perplexed, puzzled, flustered, anxious, distressed, distraught, overwrought, hassled, frazzled; Antonym: calm.
Derivative: distracting
adj
    Etymology: 14c: from Latin distrahere to draw apart.



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