"distract" meaning in English

See distract in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /dɪsˈtrækt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-distract.wav [UK] Forms: distract [canonical], distracts [third-person, singular], distracted [past], distracted [past, participle], distracting [present, participle]
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  1. If you distract someone, you make them pay attention to something different than what they were paying attention to before.
    Sense id: simple-distract-en-verb-pEPQHZqe
     
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