Usually means: Diverts attention, disrupts focus temporarily.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word distracts:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. distracts: Merriam-Webster
  2. distracts: Collins English Dictionary
  3. distracts: Vocabulary.com
  4. Distracts, distracts: Wordnik
  5. distracts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. distracts: Wiktionary
  7. distracts: Dictionary.com
  8. distracts: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. distracts: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distracts: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distracts: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See distract as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (distract)

verb:  (transitive) To divert the attention of.
verb:  (transitive) To make crazy or insane; to drive to distraction.
adjective:  Drawn asunder; separated.
adjective:  Insane, mad.
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