DISTANCE

Definitions

1. 1. To place at a distance or remotely. I heard nothing thereof at Oxford, being then miles distanced thence. Fuller.
2. 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. 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.