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distract
verb
(
transitive
) To divert the attention of.
The crowd was
distracted
by a helicopter hovering over the stadium when the only goal of the game was scored.
Translations:
German: ablenken
Etymology:
From Latin
distrahere
, "to pull apart", from
dis-Latin, dis-
, +
trahere
, "to pull".
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