distract
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verb with object
prevent (someone) from giving full attention to something:
〈人･物などが〉 «…から» 〈人･注意など〉をそらす, 紛らす, 散らす(↔ attract) (!分詞形容詞用法については→ distracted, distracting) ; 〖～ oneself〗 気を紛らす, 気晴らしをする «from»
e.g. don't allow noise to distract you from your work
e.g. (as adjective distracting) : she found his nearness distracting.
divert (attention) from something:
e.g. it was another attempt to distract attention from the truth.
(distract oneself) divert one's attention from something worrying or unpleasant by doing something different or more pleasurable:
〈人〉を楽しませる, おもしろがらせる
e.g. I tried to distract myself by concentrating on Jane.
archaic perplex and bewilder:
｟古｠ …を動転させる, 当惑［困惑］させる, 悩ませる
e.g. horror and doubt distract His troubl'd thoughts.
ORIGIN
late Middle English (also in the sense ‘pull in different directions’): from Latin distract- ‘drawn apart’, from the verb distrahere, from dis- ‘apart’ + trahere ‘to draw, drag’.