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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Distracted \Dis*tract"ed\, a. Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. --Pope. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Distract \Dis*tract"\, 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. A city . . . distracted from itself --Fuller. 2. To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different directions; to perplex; to confuse; as to distract the eye; to distract the attention. Mixed metaphors . . . distract the imagination. --Goldsmith. 3. To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares to confound; to harass. Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts. --Milton. 4. To unsettle the reason of to render insane; to craze; to madden; -- most frequently used in the participle, distracted. A poor mad soul; . . . poverty hath distracted her --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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}]
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