Hypertext Webster Gateway: "distancing"

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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