Distraction is valid Scrabble Word

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

11 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for DISTRACTION in dictionary:

NOUN:

the act of distracting or the state of being distracted
a thing that prevents someone from concentrating on something else
a diversion or recreation
extreme agitation of the mind
The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation.
That which diverts attention; a diversion.
A diversity of direction; detachment.
State in which the attention is called in different ways; confusion; perplexity.
Confusion of affairs; tumult; disorder; as, political distractions.
Agitation from violent emotions; perturbation of mind; despair.

Derangement of the mind; madness.
mental turmoil
an obstacle to attention
an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations
the act of distracting; drawing someone\'s attention away from something

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

the act of distracting or the state of being distracted; mental confusion

Words related to DISTRACTION

How to use DISTRACTION in a sentence

Advertisements were put in all the papers, and the poor father and mother were near sinking under the distraction of their mind.
Yet that morning he had a pressing sense of distraction.
But the distraction of the time has unsettled him, and the multiplicity of his pretensions have jostled with each other.
Bloundel at the shop-door, drowned in tears, and almost in a state of distraction.
The poor old captain with sick heart and legs of stone had always turned to the sea of light for distraction.
And there I resolved, without the possibility of intrusion or distraction, to devote some hours of the night, in my comfortable sitting-room, to Mr.
She craved, without being wholly aware of it, or altogether admitting it to herself, some human distraction in all that majestic solitude.
But that was only a temporary distraction of attention.
Spreading out the paper, she sought the usual mental distraction in the three-and four-line bits which make up our local columns.
We are either worth or not worth preserving, but the horrible psychology of the situation is enough to drive the national mind to distraction.

Alice Goodwin was dying, and her parents were in a state of distraction.
I have been compelled to seek distraction in strange quarters.
He was thus compelled to return, in a state of mind bordering on distraction.
She was growing very weary of it all, the distraction which she had sought, the forgetfulness of self which she had hoped to achieve, by living perpetually in a crowd.
And, again, in the confusion and distraction of Mrs.
Another distraction seems to have done more than his fear of boiling water to arrest the progress of the elaborate plan.
It is difficult for a pretty woman to avoid the glances of her companions in a carriage when their eyes fasten upon her as a visible distraction to the monotony of a journey.
I was quite calm, but your conversation has torn me to distraction.
No distraction on the part of this young novice, as well as no lurch to the ship.
Bewilderment, confusion, distraction, embarrassment, perplexity.
As an incidental consequence of this distraction, Mr.
Most of the silent men of the section took advantage of this slight distraction to shift their feet to new positions.
Until that evening at the play he had loved Aquilina to distraction.
Your city, Gentlemen, is in a state of miserable distraction, and I am resolved to withdraw whatever share my pretensions may have had in its unhappy divisions.
I have just come home from my Club in a state bordering upon distraction.
Poor Mary, driven to distraction by what had happened, she had sought salvation in the depths of the Chesapeake Bay that night.
After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, and Harris.
She would distract him, and he desired at that time distraction least of all diversions.
The silent pressure of the hands recalled nights of distraction.
Distraction and discord would follow in course, Nor MATTHEW, nor MARK, nor St.

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