SIDETRACK


Meaning of SIDETRACK in English

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

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