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v. To cause to turn away from the original focus of attention or interest; divert.

v. To pull in conflicting emotional directions; unsettle.

v. To divert the attention of.

adj. Separated; drawn asunder.

adj. Insane; mad.

v. To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin.

v. To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different directions; to perplex; to confuse

v. To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass.

v. To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; -- most frequently used in the participle, distracted.

To draw apart; pull in different directions and separate; divide.

To turn or draw away from any object; divert from any point toward another point, or toward various other objects: as, to distract a person's attention from his occupation.

To cause distraction in; draw in different directions or toward different objects; confuse by diverse or opposing considerations; perplex; bewilder: as, to distract the mind with cares.

To disorder the reason of; derange; render frantic or mad.

Distracted; frantic; deranged: same as distraught.

v. draw someone's attention away from something

v. disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed

"They are rabbit trails designed to distract from the point at hand by miring us in long, unsolvable, and previously discussed semantic gamesmanship."

distracted    distractibility    distracting    distractively    distracts   

disconcert    flurry    confuse    put-off   

separated    insane    mad    perplex    confuse    confound    harass    craze    madden    divert   

abstract    act    attacked    attract    backed    blacked    compact    contract    counterattacked    cracked