Distract and Involve

Distract

Distract verb - To draw the attention or mind to something else.

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Involve and distract are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Involve" instead a verb "Distract".

Involve verb - To hold the attention of.

Usage example: her blissful daydream so completely involved her that she never heard the knock on the door

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Distract and involve are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Distract" instead a verb "Involve".

Nearby Words: involvement, involving

character	distract character	involve character
fire	distract fire	involve fire
man	distract man	involve man
people	distract people	involve people
Other words: group, men, someone, team, death, characters, police, player, soldiers, aliens, heroes, monsters.

Professional pickpockets tend to work in groups, and employ a variety of hybridized techniques to distract their victims that involve far more than a simple bump on the street.

Source: Percussive Pickpocket
This, along with the fact that most of the people he's fighting are bigger and stronger than him, has led him to become the kind of guy whose standard tactics involve having his poisonous-miniature-dragon familiar fly into people's faces to distract them.

Source: Combat Pragmatist / Literature

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