DPage 257
- English Word Distract Definition Insane; mad.
- English Word Distract Definition To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin.
- English Word Distract Definition To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the eye; to distract the attention.
- English Word Distract Definition To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass.
- English Word Distract Definition To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; -- most frequently used in the participle, distracted.
- English Word Distracted Definition of Distract
- English Word Distracted Definition Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad.
- English Word Distractedly Definition Disjointedly; madly.
- English Word Distractedness Definition A state of being distracted; distraction.
- English Word Distracter Definition One who, or that which, distracts away.
- English Word Distractful Definition Distracting.
- English Word Distractible Definition Capable of being drawn aside or distracted.
- English Word Distractile Definition Tending or serving to draw apart.
- English Word Distracting Definition of Distract
- English Word Distracting Definition Tending or serving to distract.
- English Word Distraction Definition The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation.
- English Word Distraction Definition That which diverts attention; a diversion.
- English Word Distraction Definition A diversity of direction; detachment.
- English Word Distraction Definition State in which the attention is called in different ways; confusion; perplexity.
- English Word Distraction Definition Confusion of affairs; tumult; disorder; as, political distractions.
- English Word Distraction Definition Agitation from violent emotions; perturbation of mind; despair.
- English Word Distraction Definition Derangement of the mind; madness.
- English Word Distractious Definition Distractive.
- English Word Distractive Definition Causing perplexity; distracting.
- English Word Distrain Definition To press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict.
- English Word Distrain Definition To rend; to tear.
- English Word Distrain Definition To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done, etc.; to take by distress; as, to distrain goods for rent, or of an amercement.
- English Word Distrain Definition To subject to distress; to coerce; as, to distrain a person by his goods and chattels.
- English Word Distrain Definition To levy a distress.
- English Word Distrainable Definition Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.