"distract" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

distract verbo

distract + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 10
distract attention • distract people • distract one's mind • distract drivers • distract voters • ...
(1) attention, mind
Kolokacji: 2
2. distract one's mind = rozpraszać czyjś umysł distract one's mind
  • Nothing to distract his mind from them or give him something, anything to cling to.
  • And the others help me to distract my mind from what I see.
  • At length, having thought over every possible evil which could happen, the princess tried to distract her mind by playing with the little dog.
  • "I distract my mind from the pressure," said Robinson, who finished with 11 points.
  • Elizabeth's entire staff focused on distracting her mind from what she had lost by going out into the garden in the middle of the night.
  • Then, as if to distract my mind, he pushed an open letter across to me.
  • A pretty woman, still quite young, does somehow distract a man's mind from his troubles more effectively than most things would.
  • To distract his mind from the pain, he read the screen.
  • It distracted his mind from dwelling on what had happened to Yellowstone.
  • Her visit was a lucky coincidence, since it distracted your mind from the real object of my questions.
(2) people, voter, viewer
Kolokacji: 3
verbo + distract
Kolokacji: 7
try to distract • help distract • want to distract • keep distracting • avoid distracting • ...
distract + preposición
Kolokacji: 9
distract from • distracted by • distract with • distract for • distracted in • ...
distract + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 18
easily distracted • momentarily distracted • somewhat distracted • suddenly distracted • slightly distracted • ...

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