distract

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Basit İngilizce açıklama: To make someone stop paying attention to what they were doing or thinking about.

• Please do not distract me.
• A loud crash distracted him from his reading.
• She told jokes to distract the children while they waited.

Nasıl kullanılır: distract someone from something (The music distracted me from my work.); be distracted by something (She was distracted by a noise outside.)

Eş anlamlılar: divert, sidetrack

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: distract someone, distract from something, distract with something