Crossword-Solution: DISTRACTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Distraction | n. | The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. |
| Distraction | n. | That which diverts attention; a diversion. |
| Distraction | n. | A diversity of direction; detachment. |
| Distraction | n. | State in which the attention is called in different ways; confusion; perplexity. |
| Distraction | n. | Confusion of affairs; tumult; disorder; as, political distractions. |
| Distraction | n. | Agitation from violent emotions; perturbation of mind; despair. |
| Distraction | n. | Derangement of the mind; madness. |
We have 170 clues for the answer “DISTRACTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A thing that diverts attention | 1 answer |
| Hindrance to concentration | 1 answer |
| TO degree approaching madness | 1 answer |
| the act of distracting or the state of being distracted | 1 answer |
| Lack of focus | 4 answers |
| inadvertence | 5 answers |
| Avocation | 9 answers |
| RED herring | 12 answers |
| conjuration | 15 answers |
| Hobby | 17 answers |
| Oblivion | 20 answers |
| impishness | 23 answers |
| waywardness | 23 answers |
| roguishness | 24 answers |
| brown study | 25 answers |
| Naughtiness | 25 answers |
| devilment | 25 answers |
| roguery | 25 answers |
| bad behaviour | 26 answers |
| Impatience | 27 answers |
| ACTING up | 29 answers |
| mumbo-jumbo | 31 answers |
| waggishness | 31 answers |
| Mumbo jumbo | 33 answers |
| Tommyrot! | 36 answers |
| Monkey business | 38 answers |
| devilry | 39 answers |
| waggery | 39 answers |
| Disobedience | 40 answers |
| disruption | 43 answers |
| Diversion | 46 answers |
| haziness | 47 answers |
| murk | 47 answers |
| sportiveness | 47 answers |
| duskiness | 48 answers |
| murkiness | 48 answers |
| Conundrum | 49 answers |
| Riddle | 49 answers |
| blackness | 50 answers |
| lunacy | 50 answers |
| cabalism | 50 answers |
| meaninglessness | 50 answers |
| Abstraction | 51 answers |
| involvement | 51 answers |
| tomfoolery | 51 answers |
| Unconsciousness | 52 answers |
| Nightfall | 53 answers |
| insanity | 54 answers |
| ABSTRUSENESS | 54 answers |
| excitable state | 55 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with DISTRACTION (5)
Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.
Often when she sang, the best she had was unavailable; she could not break through to it, and every sort of distraction and mischance came between it and her.
Philander, never what one might call robust, was worn to the shadow of a shadow through the ceaseless worry and mental distraction resultant from his Herculean efforts to safeguard the professor.
Often the girl came in for many blows that were intended for a hairy foe, and once she was felled, lying unconscious while the apes, relieved of the distraction of detaining her by force, tore into one another in fierce and terrible combat.
The noise of the rifle shots brought the balance of the apes to a wondering pause, and, taking advantage of their momentary distraction, Achmet Zek and his fellows leaped to their horses’ backs and galloped away with the now hopeless and grief-stricken woman.
Quotes with DISTRACTION (3)
But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One could presumably drive oneself to distraction in this way. In any case, while it is all very well to talk of 'turning points', one can surely only recognize such moments in retrospect. Naturally, when one looks back to such instances today, they may indeed take the appearance of being crucial, precious moments in one's life; but of course, at the time, …
We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
To love is to think. And I almost forget to feel only from thinking about her. I don’t know what I want at all, even from her, and I don’t think about anything but her. I have a great animated distraction. When I want to meet her, I almost feel like not meeting her, So I don’t have to leave her afterwards. And I prefer thinking about her, because it’s like I’m afraid of her. I don’t know what I want at all, and I don’t want to know what I want. All I want to do is think about…
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Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2022).