Distract: v.tr. (word coming from the Latin distrahere “to pull in different directions”).
The verb “distract” has several meanings:
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1. Literature: Separate from a whole (detach, separate).
Distract from a total: take, subtract, subtract.
To divert a sum of money from a deposit (divert).
2. Old meaning: To divert (someone) from a project, from a resolution (to dissuade).
– Quote from the French playwright and poet Jean Racine (1639-1699): “The Gods of this design may...
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