Synonym: beguilement, misdirection. Similar words: distract, distractedly, traction, retraction, attraction, extraction, subtraction, detraction. Meaning: [dɪ'strækʃn] 
n. 1. mental turmoil 2. an obstacle to attention 3. an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations 4. the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something.
n. 1. mental turmoil 2. an obstacle to attention 3. an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations 4. the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something. 
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1 He found the noise of the photographers a distraction.
2 She worked hard all morning, without distraction.
3 Their national distraction is going to the disco.
4 The children are driving me to distraction today.
5 My kids drive me to distraction at times.
6 The child's continual crying drove me to distraction.
7 The baby's constant crying drove me to distraction.
8 He loves her to distraction.
9 You'll drive me to distraction with your silly questions!
10 The mosquitoes drive me to distraction.
11 Work was a welcome distraction from her problems at home.
12 Driven to distraction, he murdered the woman who jilted him.
13 Demands for equality were seen as a distraction from more serious issues.
14 TV can be a welcome distraction after a hard day's work.
15 Babies are not a distraction from the world.
16 For everyone else,(www.Sentencedict.com) short-term problems are a distraction.
17 Other people's talk was just a distraction.
18 There, heavenly bliss can be anticipated without sinful distraction!
19 The short-term approach, distraction, is simple.
20 Teachers and parents, of course, are driven to distraction.
21 There is great potential for distraction.
22 Jarvis's gift of extra rope provided a distraction.
23 All contributed to distraction from the initiatives.
24 The Harlequin man couldn't have provided a better distraction.
25 It was a welcome distraction when Ruth Rasmussen walked in with a pot of coffee and a large plate of muffins.
26 Let's invite her to the disco — she needs distraction.
27 A very clingy child can drive a parent to distraction.
28 She was alone in the house all day and bored to distraction.
29 I can turn the television off if you find it a distraction.
30 What puzzles a philosopher and taxes his mind to distraction may look completely irrelevant or quite obvious to a businessman.
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