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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31 In reality I was bored to distraction by the journey.
32 Nevertheless, distraction displays are, by any standards, remarkable patterns of animal behaviour, and require some explanation.
33 In both cases, the comic tends to act as a mere distraction from the main activity of drinking or dancing.
34 They lived inside a person's body and wriggled about until their presence drove him to distraction.
35 Well, skirmishes over language are a certainly a distraction, they prevent you from pursuing other national goals.
36 This threat posed less of a distraction to the horses than I would have hoped.
37 Luckily Jean was very busy at work, and that provided a distraction.
38 She'd read that when an elephant has a wound, the mahout squirts chilli juice in its eyes by way of distraction.
39 His constant invasion of her privacy was driving her to distraction.
40 He had had no expectation of doing more than exasperate, and supply a distraction.
41 As a distraction he started gambling and drinking, spending so much on luxuries that he got into serious debt.
42 I thought it might have to do with the distraction of his continuing domestic situation.
43 Can it ever be more than a cathartic force, or a soothing distraction?
44 The disrepute of Mayor Marion Barry is a distraction from the structural faults.
45 For Spurs guard Vinny Del Negro, who was trying to realign his jump shot, this might have posed a distraction.
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46 Worship at the shrine of beauty is a distraction from true worship.
47 To clear static, persevere by taking drastic steps to fight all interference and distraction.
48 But in this case, enough variations on the simple alternatives exist to drive a reasonable person to distraction.
49 It is a distraction to other worshippers and detracts from the importance of church musicians.
50 He, poor fellow, was being driven to distraction by the pain in his right shoulder.
51 Lies are a terrible distraction and waste of a citizen's time.
52 Still, I pestered her to distraction, trying to get her to talk to me as she went about her work.
53 Yet the hostility of takeovers is a distraction, a sort of white noise.
54 It does nothing whatsoever for the music and provides a distraction as unwelcome as it is contextually inappropriate.
55 And just like in the Kronenbourg ad she can't stop driving men to distraction.
56 Mrs. Swanson was being driven to distraction by her mischievous son.
57 We can arpeggio kids to bored distraction, and they will give up the instrument as soon as they can.
58 More importantly[sentencedict.com], it was regarded as a distraction from the real issues of environment and development.
59 There are many minor variations, from species to species, but these two types of distraction display are the basic forms.
60 This is the kind of overly generalized, commercial forestry approach that drives Hub Vogelmann and his fellow ecologists nearly to distraction.
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