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detract
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    And all of them just to detract attention away from me.†  (source)
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    Mamaw had her own theory: that Mom had tried to detract attention from her cheating and financial problems.†  (source)
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    Nice of you to turn up, Potter, although you have evidently decided that the wearing of school robes would detract from your appearance.†  (source)
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    Her detractors were far less charitable.†  (source)
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    And besides, I suspected that fighting a battle royal might detract from the dignity of my speech.†  (source)
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    In some curious way all the stitches and folds had contributed to, rather than detracted from, his looks.†  (source)
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    Whenever I was solicited to insert anything of that kind, and the writers pleaded, as they generally did, the liberty of the press, and that a newspaper was like a stagecoach, in which any one who would pay had a right to a place, my answer was, that I would print the piece separately if desired, and the author might have as many copies as he pleased to distribute himself, but that I would not take upon me to spread his detraction; and that, having contracted with my subscribers to furnish them with what might be either useful or entertaining, I could not fill their papers with private altercation, in which they had no concern, without doing them manifest injustice.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    He is so; but then he is wholly uneducated: he is as silent as a Turk, and a kind of ignorant carelessness attends him, which, while it renders his conduct the more astonishing, detracts from the interest and sympathy which otherwise he would command.†  (source)
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    Downstairs had the same problem, and with the added detractor of being dark, and me without a flashlight.†  (source)
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    Once Chuito complained to the bosses and was written up for detracting from the familial spirit of the department.†  (source)
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    And the schoolbook pictures of primitive man sometimes omit some of the detractions of his primitive life...the pain, the disease, famine, the hard labor needed just to stay alive.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    Pittman did not lack for detractors, however.†  (source)
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    And all that is going to detract from the training.†  (source)
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