The word “distract” means; to cause (someone) to stop thinking about or paying attention to someone or something and to think about or pay attention to someone or something else instead
: to take (attention) away from someone or something
dɪˈstrakt/

late Middle English (also in the sense ‘pull in different directions’): from Latin distract- ‘drawn apart’, from the verb distrahere, from dis- ‘apart’ + trahere ‘to draw, drag’.
verb
prevent (someone) from concentrating on something.
“don’t allow noise to distract you from your work”
synonyms:       divert, deflect, sidetrack, turn aside/away, draw away; More
divert (attention) from something.
“it was another attempt to distract attention from the truth”
divert one’s attention from something unpleasant by doing something different or more pleasurable.
“I tried to distract myself by concentrating on Jane”