See drive to distraction in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "From drive (“to cause to become”) + to + distraction (“deranged state of mind; insanity”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "drives to distraction",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "driving to distraction",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "drove to distraction",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "driven to distraction",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "drive<,,drove,driven> to distraction"
},
"expansion": "drive to distraction (third-person singular simple present drives to distraction, present participle driving to distraction, simple past drove to distraction, past participle driven to distraction)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"drive"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English hyperboles",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To annoy (someone) so much that they cannot concentrate."
],
"id": "en-drive_to_distraction-en-verb-oPQDgyCd",
"links": [
[
"annoy",
"annoy"
],
[
"concentrate",
"concentrate#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, hyperbolic) To annoy (someone) so much that they cannot concentrate."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "to distraction"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "drive crazy"
},
{
"word": "drive round the bend"
},
{
"word": "drive up the wall"
}
],
"tags": [
"excessive",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌdɹaɪv tə dɪsˈtɹækʃ(ə)n/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-drive to distraction.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/28/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-drive_to_distraction.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-drive_to_distraction.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/28/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-drive_to_distraction.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-drive_to_distraction.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌdɹaɪv tə dɪsˈtɹækʃən/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/də-/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"word": "drive to distraction"
}
{
"etymology_text": "From drive (“to cause to become”) + to + distraction (“deranged state of mind; insanity”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "drives to distraction",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "driving to distraction",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "drove to distraction",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "driven to distraction",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "drive<,,drove,driven> to distraction"
},
"expansion": "drive to distraction (third-person singular simple present drives to distraction, present participle driving to distraction, simple past drove to distraction, past participle driven to distraction)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"drive"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "to distraction"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English hyperboles",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English transitive verbs",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"To annoy (someone) so much that they cannot concentrate."
],
"links": [
[
"annoy",
"annoy"
],
[
"concentrate",
"concentrate#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, hyperbolic) To annoy (someone) so much that they cannot concentrate."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "drive crazy"
},
{
"word": "drive round the bend"
},
{
"word": "drive up the wall"
}
],
"tags": [
"excessive",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌdɹaɪv tə dɪsˈtɹækʃ(ə)n/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-drive to distraction.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/28/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-drive_to_distraction.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-drive_to_distraction.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/28/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-drive_to_distraction.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-drive_to_distraction.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌdɹaɪv tə dɪsˈtɹækʃən/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/də-/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"word": "drive to distraction"
}
Download raw JSONL data for drive to distraction meaning in English (2.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.