also side-track
(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
If you are ~ed by something, it makes you forget what you intended to do or say, and start instead doing or talking about a different thing.
He’d managed to avoid being ~ed by Schneider’s problems...
The leadership moved to ~ the proposal...
They have a tendency to try to ~ you from your task.
VERB: be V-ed, V n, V n from n, also be V-ed into n/-ing