word-vault/dist/data/cards/di/distract.json

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{
    "term": "distract",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "distract",
            "heSheIt": "distracts"
        },
        "pastSimple": "distracted",
        "pastParticiple": "distracted",
        "ingForm": "distracting"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to take somebody’s attention away from what they are trying to do",
            "sensetop": "distract somebody/something (from something)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "You're distracting me from my work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't talk to her—she's very easily distracted."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was another attempt to **distract attention** from the truth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He’s easily distracted from his work"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an attempt to distract attention away from the real problems in the country"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "divert",
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["easily", "momentarily", "temporarily"],
                "preposition": ["(away) from"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrækt/",
                "audio": "di/distract/distract__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrækts/",
                "audio": "di/distract/distracts__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstræktɪd/",
                "audio": "di/distract/distracted__gb_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstræktɪŋ/",
                "audio": "di/distract/distracting__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrækt/",
                "audio": "di/distract/distract__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrækts/",
                "audio": "di/distract/distracts__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstræktɪd/",
                "audio": "di/distract/distracted__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstræktɪŋ/",
                "audio": "di/distract/distracting__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (also in the sense ‘pull in different directions’): from Latin distract- ‘drawn apart’, from the verb distrahere, from dis- ‘apart’ + trahere ‘to draw, drag’."
}