Calm
Calm verb - To free from distress or disturbance.
Distract
Distract verb - To trouble the mind of; to make uneasy.
Usage example: distracted by the looming tax deadline
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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In the flashbacks with Gyatso and Bumi he's earnest but calm and somewhat reticent, and his hyperactivity might just be a way of trying to distract himself from the horror.
Source: Freak Out -
They distract him with a jelly ba—er, licorice allsort, and introduce him to the concepts of freedom and darkness.The Doctor and Leela are soon captured by La Résistance, led by Mandrel, and learn that the workforce are being kept calm by a gas piped into the atmosphere.
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