distract
Drawn asunder; separatedDrawn asunder; separated.
Meaning
2 senses(not comparable, obsolete)Drawn asunder; separated.
(not comparable, obsolete)Insane, mad.
Examples
362 sentencesDon't distract me from studying.
Не відволікай мене від нвчання. — ascolto
ruНе отвлекай меня от занятий. — marafon
Tom looks a little distracted.
Том здається трохи відсутнім. — deniko
Don't distract me.
Не відволікай мене. — deniko
ruНе отвлекайте меня. — odexed
Tom got distracted.
Том відволікся. — deniko
I got distracted.
Мене відволікли. — deniko
ruМеня отвлекли. — nina99nv
Origin
Borrowed from Latin distractus, from distrahō (“to pull apart”), from dis- + trahō (“to puBorrowed from Latin distractus, from distrahō (“to pull apart”), from dis- + trahō (“to pull”).
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Word family
1 related wordsCollocations
5 patterns- a little distracted
- little distracted
- tried to distract
- seemed distracted
- got distracted
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.