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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Distance \Dis"tance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distanced}; p. pr &
vb n. {Distancing}.]
1. To place at a distance or remotely.
I heard nothing thereof at Oxford, being then miles
distanced thence. --Fuller.
2. To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem
remote.
His peculiar art of distancing an object to
aggrandize his space. --H. Miller.
3. To outstrip by as much as a distance (see {Distance}, n.,
3); to leave far behind; to surpass greatly.
He distanced the most skillful of his
contemporaries. --Milner.
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