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Found 4 hits - Term: distracted, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
distracted \distract"ed\, a.
   mentally disordered; unsettled; mad.
   1913 webster

         my distracted mind.                      --pope.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
distract \distract"\, v. t. imp.  p. p. distracted, old p.
   p. distraught; p. pr.  vb. n. distracting.
   1. to draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin.
      1913 webster

            a city . . . distracted from itself.  --fuller.
      1913 webster

   2. to draw the sight, mind, or attention in different
      directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the
      eye; to distract the attention.
      1913 webster

            mixed metaphors . . . distract the imagination.
                                                  --goldsmith.
      1913 webster

   3. to agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of
      motives or of cares; to confound; to harass.
      1913 webster

            horror and doubt distract
            his troubled thoughts.                --milton.
      1913 webster

   4. to unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to
      madden; -- most frequently used in the participle,
      distracted.
      1913 webster

            a poor mad soul; . . . poverty hath distracted her.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
distracted distraught distracting 
[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
distracted
     adj 1: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
            syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad,
             sick, unbalanced, unhinged
     2: having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety
        syn: distrait
see also:
brainsick crazy demented disturbed mad sick 
unbalanced unhinged distrait 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
103 moby thesaurus words for "distracted":
   abandoned, abashed, abroad, adrift, amok, astray, at sea,
   bellowing, berserk, bewildered, bothered, careless, carried away,
   clueless, confused, delirious, demoniac, discomposed, disconcerted,
   dismayed, disoriented, disregardant, disregardful, distrait,
   distraught, distressed, disturbed, ecstatic, embarrassed,
   enraptured, feral, ferocious, fierce, frantic, frenzied,
   fulminating, furious, guessing, haggard, harassed, heedless,
   hog-wild, howling, hysterical, in a fix, in a maze, in a pickle,
   in a scrape, in a stew, in a transport, in hysterics, inadvertent,
   inattentive, incurious, indifferent, inobservant, intoxicated,
   lost, mad, madding, maniac, mazed, negligent, off the track,
   orgasmic, orgiastic, perturbed, possessed, put-out, rabid, raging,
   rambling, ramping, ranting, raving, ravished, regardless, roaring,
   running mad, storming, thoughtless, tormented, transported,
   troubled, turned around, uncontrollable, unheedful, unheeding,
   unmarking, unmindful, unnoticing, unnoting, unobservant,
   unobserving, unremarking, upset, violent, wandering, wild,
   wild-eyed, wild-looking, without a clue, worried





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