Distract is valid Scrabble Word

Is distract a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is distract valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for DISTRACT in dictionary:

VERB:

to divert the attention of
prevent (someone) from concentrating on something
divert (attention) from something
perplex and bewilder
draw the attention of (a person) away from something
To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin.
To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the eye; to distract the attention.
To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass.
To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; -- most frequently used in the participle, distracted.
draw someone\'s attention away from something

disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
divert one's attention from something unpleasant by doing something different or more pleasurable

ADJECTIVE:

Separated; drawn asunder.
Insane; mad.

Words related to DISTRACT

distracted14 distracter13 distracters14 distractible17 distracting15 distractingly20 distractive17 distractively22 distracts12 distraught15

How to use DISTRACT in a sentence

For the first time she seems glad of outside interests because they distract her.
It was familiar enough to him, as a Neapolitan, but just now it reminded him of something which might possibly help to distract his attention.
This was, she thought, such a fortunate incident! It gave her what she had long desired, and it would serve to distract me from the wretched life I had always led.
The popes still kept these words prominent, either to distract the Western Christians from intestine quarrels, or to really promote some new Christian effort in the East.
With no longer a companion to distract her, Tess fell more deeply into reverie than ever, her back leaning against the hives.
During the succeeding years, up to 1861, there was little to distract the attention of the pioneers.
He gave one quick glance from beneath his eyebrows at the profane interruption, but he would not distract himself from his sacred errand at such a moment.
We have so much to distract us in this world that we do not realise how truly and deeply, if not always warmly and consciously, we love Christ.
There would be no mother, no sisters, to absorb her time and distract her thoughts from her husband, perhaps prejudice her against him.
There was nothing in them to distract me from the thought that it was singularly appropriate that I should start from this station on the retraced way of my existence.

The merest trifle might distract the attention of the performers and render their eyes and hold unsteady, he said.
She was beginning to speak about Eric, when something in my face seemed to distract her.
He can hardly have expected to do more than distract his enemy and perhaps make him divide his forces.
I could hardly imagine a death that would longer or more painfully affect a family group than this, for they had so few outward circumstances to distract their thoughts.
In the mean time I saw Matilda every day, and that helped distract me.
Philadelphia served no purpose but to divide and distract British enterprise.
And it remains to ask what it is which should distract the attention.
If he could realize nothing outside himself, he might at least remove whatever would distract him from inward contemplation.
But in his isolation he had allowed himself no thought of anything that could for a moment distract him from the stern purpose to which he had devoted every energy.
There was neither dog nor cat, nor even a stray doll, to distract attention from the serious business of education.
Even reading hardly serves to distract me now, though I bury myself in books in my despair.
Ruth put it wearily from her, and took up the first book which came to her hand, to distract her attention.
It will distract her energies from her own economic and social problems.
He was suffering fearfully with old-fashioned consumption, but he used to send for me to read to him to distract his thoughts.
On the other hand, they would certainly distract some attention which I could very ill afford to spare.
I count, however, that his own life was the hardest, for he did all three, and did not suffer one to distract another.
When the queen died he urged the princesses to get their father some new mistress to distract him.

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