distract

distraer

Hacer que alguien deje de prestar atención a lo que estaba haciendo o pensando.

En inglés sencillo: To make someone stop paying attention to what they were doing or thinking about.

• Please do not distract me.
• A loud crash distracted him from his reading.
• She told jokes to distract the children while they waited.

Cómo se usa: distract someone from something (The music distracted me from my work.); be distracted by something (She was distracted by a noise outside.)

Sinónimos: divert, sidetrack

Expresiones frecuentes: distract someone, distract from something, distract with something