Thesaurus: distract

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1. a. Separated; drawn asunder.
2. a. Insane; mad.
3. v. t. To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin.
4. v. t. To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the eye; to distract the attention.
5. v. t. To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass.
6. v. t. To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; -- most frequently used in the participle, distracted.
7. v. draw someone's attention away from something
8. v. disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
9. 1. Separated; drawn asunder. [Obs.] 2. Insane; mad. [Obs.] Drayton. 1. To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin. A city . . . distracted from itself. Fuller. 2. To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the eye; to distract the attention. Mixed metaphors . . . distract the imagination. Goldsmith. 3. To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass. Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts. Milton. 4. To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; -- most frequently used in the participle, distracted. A poor mad soul; . . . poverty hath distracted her. Shak.
10. v:100 v. draw someone's attention away from something