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Distract
DISTRACT, v.t. [L., to draw. See draw and drag. The old participle distraught is obsolete.]
1. Literally, to draw apart; to pull in different directions, and separate. Hence, to divide; to separate; and hence, to throw into confusion. Sometimes in a literal sense. Contradictory or mistaken orders may distract an army.
2. To turn or draw from any object; to divert from any point, towards another point or toward various other objects; as, to distract the eye or the attention.
If he cannot avoid the eye of the observer, he hopes to distract it by a multiplicity of the object.
3. To draw towards different objects; to fill with different considerations; to perplex; to confound; to harass; as, to distract the mind with cares; you distract me with your clamor.
While I suffer thy terrors, I am distracted. Psa 88.
4. To disorder the reason; the derange the regular operations of intellect; to render raving or furious; most frequently used in the participle distracted.
DISTRACT, a. Mad. [Not in use.]
distract appears in definitions for these words:
Attend Bestraught Confusion Cumber Deranged Dissociation Distract Distracter Distraction Distractive Distraught Ecstasy Embroil Entangle Fall Frantic Franticly Franticness Frenzy Insane Insaneness Mad Madman Madness Necessity Pathetic Perplex Raving Ravingly Run Start Strait-jacket Strait-waistcoat Sympathize Uncollected Wildly
Attend Bestraught Confusion Cumber Deranged Dissociation Distract Distracter Distraction Distractive Distraught Ecstasy Embroil Entangle Fall Frantic Franticly Franticness Frenzy Insane Insaneness Mad Madman Madness Necessity Pathetic Perplex Raving Ravingly Run Start Strait-jacket Strait-waistcoat Sympathize Uncollected Wildly
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