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Definition of Distracts
1. distract [v] - See also: distract
Lexicographical Neighbors of Distracts
Literary usage of Distracts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Roland Lomax Vaughan Williams, Joseph Fitz Randolph, William Talcott (1895)
"But where persuasion is used to a testator on his deathbed, when even a word
distracts him, it may amount to foi-ce and inspiring fear ..."
2. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1881)
"If it does not take its author's name off some visiting lists he may thank his
literary stars. and distracts the attention, and the opening episode of Capt. ..."
3. Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men by John William Harris (1901)
"automatic effort, yet distracts attention from the left ear, and a communication
to that ear is unheard, but perceived as a thought. ..."
4. The Greatest Works of the Greatest Authors, Ancient and Modern (1894)
"ness distracts the вон! with the feeling of former happiness. A win. With silence
of the tongue and cheerfulness of look I entertained my husband. ..."