Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to distract
Participle: distracted
Gerund: distracting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | distract |
| you | distract |
| he;she;it | distracts |
| we | distract |
| you | distract |
| they | distract |
Perfect
| I | have distracted |
| you | have distracted |
| he;she;it | has distracted |
| we | have distracted |
| you | have distracted |
| they | have distracted |
Past
| I | distracted |
| you | distracted |
| he;she;it | distracted |
| we | distracted |
| you | distracted |
| they | distracted |
Pluperfect
| I | had distracted |
| you | had distracted |
| he;she;it | had distracted |
| we | had distracted |
| you | had distracted |
| they | had distracted |
Future
| I | will distract |
| you | will distract |
| he;she;it | will distract |
| we | will distract |
| you | will distract |
| they | will distract |
Future Perfect
| I | will have distracted |
| you | will have distracted |
| he;she;it | will have distracted |
| we | will have distracted |
| you | will have distracted |
| they | will have distracted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | distract |
| you | distract |
| he;she;it | distract |
| we | distract |
| you | distract |
| they | distract |
Perfect
| I | have distracted |
| you | have distracted |
| he;she;it | have distracted |
| we | have distracted |
| you | have distracted |
| they | have distracted |
Imperfect
| I | distracted |
| you | distracted |
| he;she;it | distracted |
| we | distracted |
| you | distracted |
| they | distracted |
Pluperfect
| I | had distracted |
| you | had distracted |
| he;she;it | had distracted |
| we | had distracted |
| you | had distracted |
| they | had distracted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would distract |
| you | would distract |
| he;she;it | would distract |
| we | would distract |
| you | would distract |
| they | would distract |
Perfect
| I | would have distracted |
| you | would have distracted |
| he;she;it | would have distracted |
| we | would have distracted |
| you | would have distracted |
| they | would have distracted |
Imperative
| you | distract |
| we | Let's distract |
| you | distract |
Verbs conjugated like 'distract'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'distract'
district,
abstract,
destruct,
detract,
diffract,
disgrace,
distinct,
distrain,
distrust,
mistrace,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1340, "to draw asunder or apart" (lit. and figurative), from L.
distractus, pp. of
distrahere "draw in different directions," from
dis- "away" +
trahere "to draw" (see tract (1)). Sense of "to throw into a state of mind in which one knows not how to act" is from 1583.
2. Borrowed from Latin distractus, from distrahō (“to pull apart”), from dis- + trahō (“to pull”).
Verbs referencing "distract"
Esperanto
distri, Spanish
distraer, Ido distraktar.
Sample Sentences
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[...] upon the other side, he puts another figure, whose face is hidden from him also. Day after day, and often when he wakes up in the middle of the night, he thinks of these two men until he is almost distracted. He never changes them. There they are always as he first imagined them—an old man on the right; a younger man upon the left—whose hidden features torture him to death, and have a mystery that [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)