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DISTRACT

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distract verb tranzitiv

1. (from) a distrage, a sustrage, a abate (atenţia) de la.

2. a hărţui, a atrage în direcţii diferite.

3. a frământa, a tulbura, a zăpăci.

4. (with) a tulbura mintea (cuiva), a înnebuni (cu);

he was distracted with pain era înnebunit de durere.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

“It's enough to distract me,” cried my mother.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The variable magnesium block that ensured the cells consistently sent information to the brain in response to the passing bars of light despite the distracting incoming stream of signals generated by the background lights.

(Eye cells may use math to detect motion, NIH)

The mind which does not struggle against itself under one circumstance, would find objects to distract it in the other, I believe; and the influence of the place and of example may often rouse better feelings than are begun with.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

"Girls, girls, do be quiet one minute! I must get this off by the early mail, and you drive me distracted with your worry," cried Mrs. March, crossing out the third spoiled sentence in her letter.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

The most that we could do was to check their progress by distracting their attention with the flash and roar of our guns, and so to give both the natives and ourselves time to reach the steps which led to safety.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But, distracted though I was, by a sight so new to me and terrible, the determination in his face, and his look out to sea—exactly the same look as I remembered in connexion with the morning after Emily's flight—awoke me to a knowledge of his danger.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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