- godan verb, transitive to divert (e.g. one's mind); to distract; to relieve (boredom, sorrow, etc.); to drown (one's sorrows); to beguile (the time)
- to conceal (e.g. one's grief with a smile); to hide; to shift (the conversation); to change (the subject)
紛らす
まぎらす
to divert (e.g. one's mind)