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Divert attention
Answer for the clue "Divert attention ", 8 letters:
distract
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Word definitions for distract in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "to draw asunder or apart, to turn aside" (literal and figurative), from Latin distractus , past participle of distrahere "draw in different directions," from dis- "away" (see dis- ) + trahere "to draw" (see tract (n.1)).\n \nSense of "to throw ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 (context obsolete English) Separated; drawn asunder. 2 (context obsolete English) Insane; mad. v (context transitive English) To divert the attention of.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Distract \Dis*tract"\, a. [L. distractus, p. p. of distrahere to draw asunder; dis- + trahere to draw. See Trace , and cf. Distraught .] Separated; drawn asunder. [Obs.] Insane; mad. [Obs.] --Drayton.
Usage examples of distract.
She grinned suddenly, unable to resist aji opportunity to twit him, if only to distract herself from her misery.
The loose subordination, and extensive possessions, of the Huns and the Alani, delayed the conquests, and distracted the councils, of that victorious people.
Or the rain might fall, as it does in Algeria, in endless deluges, making a wet dark well of the street, but the class was hardly distracted.
The lap dog somehow managed to distract my attention and twice I even reached out to touch it, but Lambert imperiously waved his hand, whereupon both Alphonsine and the lap dog vanished behind the screen.
No true climber would ever distract a fellow alpinist who was in the middle of taking on a tough problem.
His stories not only distract Arete and Alkinoos but also make him glamorous in their eyes.
Giliead grumbled from the opening as he tossed in an armload of fallen branches and kindling, and Tremaine, distracted by the idea of a fire and hot food, mentally put the wall aside for the moment.
Philip never confessed it, but he had settled for the bleak comfort of hopelessness the moment the voice of a WMTG newsreader coming from the portable radio on his desk had distracted his attention from an elaborate doodle with the announcement that a third name had been definitively added to that of Shane Auslander and Trey Wilk.
Steff, aware that his presence could be distracting at the best of times, decided to cut the girl some slack and sit down, pulling up a chair in the backmost row of the semi-circle.
I make sure to fill his wineglass with an excellent Barbaresco he keeps thanking me with a nod and a relaxed smile, his eyes lingering on mine, only sometimes distracted by the lights and cameras and various assistants swirling around us.
Dahlia gave him a look that was blanker than usual, since she was on the distracted side.
Phil Barrett was distracted, dividing his attention between his prisoners and the entrance to the two trails that led through the blowdown and intersected in the clearing.
I have been so distracted that I forgot that you went to Bokhara with Lieutenant Burnes several years ago.
This time, Boran would not be distracted by thoughts of possessing Siri or even of watching Hunter suffer emotionally.
In short, though distracted first by the two capitals, and afterwards by the formal partition of the empire, the extraordinary felicity of arrangement maintains an order and a regular progression.