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Meanings of distract in English
Synonyms
Examples for "trouble"
Examples for "trouble"
1
This year the Party leadership went to great lengths to avoid trouble.
2
Millions have fled Middle Eastern trouble spots seeking sanctuary in Western Europe.
3
The trouble is that each situation is extremely complicated and very different.
4
A report last week by DataQuick Information Systems pointed to additional trouble.
5
Four police officers have been injured during trouble in Newry City today.
1
Conclusion: Bipolar disorder is more common in family practice than previously believed.
2
However, the relationship between cocaine use disorder and social decision-making remains unclear.
3
Background: Bipolar disorder is among the 10 most disabling medical conditions worldwide.
4
Some experts suggest this is a new form of body dysmorphic disorder.
5
Assessment: Bipolar 1 disorder, current episode manic, severe, with psychotic features; PTSD.
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In the short term, however, there is simply disquiet about the Bulgarian.
2
Conservative MPs voted with the government but many subsequently expressed their disquiet.
3
The Taoiseach is also facing growing disquiet among backbenchers over the plan.
4
The conversation with Wednesday had left Shadow with a sense of disquiet.
5
Some other companies have also voiced disquiet over the implications of independence.
1
Rarely need the complaisance that audacity evokes perturb the diffident man; since
2
Once more Pike ignored the younger man's clumsy attempt to perturb him.
3
The information did not perturb her, and her coolness was a challenge.
4
In the summer she came home like this, sweet-natured and impossible to perturb.
5
However, one detail perturbed him: suppose autopsies revealed the presence of arsenic?
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All of these questions about flares were obviously beginning to unhinge him.
2
Everything seemed designed to unhinge the mind and make the cat wretched.
3
Grace has a secret with the power to unhinge her precariously balanced family.
4
They started to pass and move faster in an effort to unhinge Everton.
5
With wings outstretched, unhinge themselves off the ledge, into flight .
1
The nervous, excitable temper has helped the fret and cark of ambitious life.
2
Well, to be plain, out of the Stewart cark and moil!
3
Hatred and cark and care, what place have they
4
As for the top 10 songs to play at my funeral when I cark it?
5
We only play stuff we want to play before we cark it, the great string trios.
Usage of distract in English
1
Emphasising individual responsibility doesn't need to distract from corporate and federal responsibility.
2
Every news cycle tells the other story: women's short skirts distract men.
3
Rags were often used to help facilitate feeding and distract the baby.
4
Long enough to distract them from the real problems they were facing.
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Political leaders could use it to distract people from their economic mismanagement.
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He wanted to distract her; he didn't want her thinking about Palamedes.
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It's possible that some incoming information will distract you from the here-and-now.
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Video games can also distract, depress, have a negative impact on health.
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Just got to not worry, not try to let anything distract us.
10
I believe the real reason was to distract me from his absence.
11
However, the novelty of his surroundings didn't distract Gregg from his job.
12
ISIS won't distract you from the new Miguel's comments about Frank Ocean.
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Cezar was careful to remain utterly still, not wanting to distract her.
14
I decide not to let it distract me, at least not now.
15
She says fame and attention do not distract or even interest her.
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We use children, she suggests, to distract ourselves from our spiritual deficiencies.
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Distract across language varieties
United States of America
Common
Australia
Common
Ireland
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