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1 definition found 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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