To recognize someone or something as different from others based on its characteristics. / To see someone or something clearly or distinctly.

Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature. / A cause of such discomfort. / Serious danger.

To cause strain or anxiety to someone. / (law) To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain. / To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.

That which distinguishes; a single occurrence of a determining factor or feature, the fact of being divided; separation, discrimination. / The act of distinguishing, discriminating; discrimination.

The distance from the effort on a lever to the fulcrum.

(transitive) To divide into portions and dispense. / (transitive) To supply to retail outlets. / (transitive) To deliver or pass out. / (transitive) To scatter or spread.

Something that distracts. / The process of being distracted. / Perturbation; disorder; disturbance; confusion. / Mental disorder; a deranged state of mind; insanity.

(transitive) To divert the attention of. / (transitive) To make crazy or insane; to drive to distraction.

(obsolete) Separated; drawn asunder. / (obsolete) Insane; mad.

(transitive) to confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions or liquids. / (transitive) to divert, redirect, or alter by disturbing.