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to distraction

to distraction prepositional phrase: to an excessive or irrational degree.

Prepositional phrase

  1. To an excessive or irrational degree.
    • to love someone to distraction
    Synonyms:
    to death, to excess

Synonyms of to distraction

Questions about to distraction

What does to distraction mean?
To distraction means to an excessive or irrational degree.
What part of speech is to distraction?
To distraction is a prepositional phrase.

Words near to distraction in the dictionary

  1. to come
  2. to date
  3. to day
  4. to death
  5. to die for
  6. to distraction
  7. to do with
  8. to each his own
  9. to each their own
  10. to emphasize everything is to emphasize nothing
  11. to err is human

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