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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Distance \Dis"tance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distanced; p. pr. & vb. n. Distancing.]

1.To place at a distance or remotely. [1913 Webster]

I heard nothing thereof at Oxford, being then miles distanced thence.— Fuller.[1913 Webster]

2.To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem remote. [1913 Webster]

His peculiar art of distancing an object to aggrandize his space.— H. Miller.[1913 Webster]

3.To outstrip by as much as a distance (see Distance, n., 3); to leave far behind; to surpass greatly. [1913 Webster]

He distanced the most skillful of his contemporaries.— Milner.[1913 Webster]
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