distracts

/D IH0 S T R AE1 K T S/
verb
  1. 1

    To divert the attention of.

    โ€œThe crowd was distracted by a helicopter hovering over the stadium when the only goal of the game was scored.โ€

  2. 2

    To make crazy or insane; to drive to distraction.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/distract, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/distracts