distract

distraire

Détourner l’attention de quelqu’un de ce qu’il faisait ou de ce à quoi il pensait.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : distract someone from something (The music distracted me from my work.); be distracted by something (She was distracted by a noise outside.)

Synonymes : divert, sidetrack

Expressions courantes : distract someone, distract from something, distract with something