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.
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61 Archibol was committed to relieving himself of the distraction of Isaac as quickly as possible.
62 In the hit movie Withnall and I, the two visit Riggindale and it drives them almost to the brink of distraction.
63 A distraction may cause it to wander off into the road, with fatal consequences.
64 Distraction turns out to make a big difference in how well memories are stored.
65 However the parish council disapproved of the plan because of the possible distraction it would cause to drivers.
66 Despite his love of distraction, Minton in his career as yet showed no loss of impetus.
67 Despite their independent nature, they quickly become a pleasant distraction from an otherwise plastic world.
68 She's one of 27 pensioners living in the Aylesbury area who've been victims of distraction burglaries in the past year.
69 It is more likely that the incorporation of radical ideas will contribute to their dilution and distraction.
70 Each party tended to see its own central ideal and to look at the others concerned as a perverse distraction from it.
71 It would have driven every other landlady to distraction but Wilson was determined not to be bested.
72 Acute schizophrenia can severely impair mothering skills when maternal distress leads to distraction and neglect.
73 As the students are talking, a wave of soft, vague light, of sleepy distraction, passes over Primo.
74 Watching the television for mindless comfort, trying to blot out loneliness with an avalanche of distraction.
75 Fir is native to these mountains,(www.Sentencedict.com) and the pattern would add to the overall beauty without being a visual distraction.
76 Or will his lack of ambition drive you to distraction?
77 The nearest distraction is probably the Concord Turnpike, a half mile north of the pond.
78 By the end of last year, when they had three of the children, he had been almost driven to distraction.
79 William Swain collapsed and died after a distraction burglary at his home.
80 No doubt, she thought, a visitor might be a very unwelcome distraction in his entrenched life.
81 The others are in various states of distraction: Eddie is shifting from foot to foot.
82 Equality isn't a sideshow, a distraction in the quest for sustainability: it's simply the best way there.
83 Meanwhile police have launched a new campaign to reduce the number of distraction burglaries, which increased by fifteen percent last year.
84 Zoe talks her dad into letting her have driving lessons but she and Janine drive Garry to distraction.
85 While the leg craved attention, I strained to forget it, even using rubbish as a distraction.
86 It was as if, by staying at home continuously, without distraction, she would not risk missing the return of Montaine.
87 Tennis has become a welcome distraction for Rudy and his whole family.
88 Driven to distraction by Rampo, I finally decided to abandon him.
89 For some people it may be an unwanted distraction; for others it may be an exciting and invaluable asset. 5.
90 The biggest distraction of all, the arrival of Celtic's new manager Lou Macari.
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