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US
/dɪˈstɹækʃən/
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[ UK /dɪstɹˈækʃən/ ]
[ UK /dɪstɹˈækʃən/ ]
NOUN
-
mental turmoil
he drives me to distraction -
the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something
conjurers are experts at misdirection - an obstacle to attention
- an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations
How To Use distraction In A Sentence
- The pursuit of such metaphysical questions is just a high-minded distraction from the more pressing issue of confronting the dilemma of one's existence here and now.
- I find it hard to work at home because there are too many distractions.
- I was standing in some kind of wooded area and looking around Probably trying to find any distraction to keep me from going for my lecture and I did eventually find that tap-dancing squirrel but that's a story for another post and then somehow bits and pieces began to hit me. Archive 2005-02-01
- Only some people believe that a guy who called criticism "distraction" is a good guy. Clinton has big lead in Kentucky, Obama on top in Oregon
- A distraction may cause it to wander off into the road, with fatal consequences.
- Katie and Matt were boring me this morning, so I popped in a DVD for distraction and watched him get plowed while lying in a sink.
- The animation of insentient or nonhuman entities produces an effect of cacophony and distraction.
- He used this distraction to swipe at the dog's hind quarters.
- But the cup will give the club a much-needed distraction from these worries - and hopefully the shot in the arm they need.
- Junior faculty members, in particular, want to ensure that their blogs are not a distraction from their primary research.