[dɪˈstrakt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- prevent (someone) from concentrating on something
(e.g: don't allow noise to distract you from your work)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (also in the sense ‘pull in different directions’): from Latin distract- ‘drawn apart’, from the verb distrahere, from dis- ‘apart’ + trahere ‘to draw, drag’