distract

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /dɪsˈtrækt/

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Verb

Plain form distract

Third-person singular distracts

Past tense distracted

Past participle distracted

Present participle distracting

1. (transitive) If you distract someone, you make them pay attention to something different than what they were paying attention to before.

   The crowd was distracted by a helicopter hovering over the stadium when the only goal of the game was scored.

Related words

• distraction