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Distanced

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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distanced

vb. (en-past of: distance)

Usage examples of "distanced".

She was very willing, also, to take the nonsense out of the Capsheaf girls, who thought themselves the most stylish personages of their city world, and would bite their lips well to see themselves distanced by a country miss.

Top darted after them as fast as his four legs could carry him, but the emus distanced him with ease, so prodigious was their speed.

Then, with a small headshake, a silent personal order, he determinedly distanced himself from the anger.

Never has death been simultaneously so clearly near and so cleanly distanced for the viewing public, turning the imagistic space of television into something more akin to a video game.

Postmodern experience no longer conforms to the print-centered, phallocentric paradigm of a distanced, objectifying, linear, and perspectival vision.

At such moments she was relentless, she was temperamental, she wasn't taking calls, outside communications were filtered through the only two individuals who could or would dare to speak to her during production: her personal assistant, Elsie, a smaller, compacter, darker version of Freya who seemed instinctively to dislike everybody, and Rags, her husband, a spectral presence in leather pants and stainless steel glasses ("Nazi goggles," Freya called them), his large bony nose the subject of the usual jokes, the odious peat-bog aroma of his ever-present black cigarette enhancing the general aura of disquieting omniscience with which he distanced fans and followers.

Without football’s myriad demonologies, how are those who have been distanced from the modern world supposed to prove that they understand it?

I sat there strangely distanced from my family and friends, trying to imagine the invasion we had planned-our emergence in Earthspace and our coordinated attacks against Reflex Point, as the Regis's hive complex had been dubbed.

The legitimization of our line has effectively distanced older families from the throne, since we descend from one of the more recent emperors.

The legitimization of our line has effectively distanced older families from the throne, since we descend from one of the more recent em perors.

Nixon distanced NASA organizationally from its Apollo past: "We must think of space activities as part of a continuing process.

When a woman’s voice with more than a touch of Southern accent spoke from nearby, saying, “You can smell that shit fifty feet away,” I was so distanced I felt only mild resentment for this interference in the plotlessness of my life, and said, because it required little energy, “Thanks.

She reached the picnic benches across the road from the burial mounds and slowed, winded and shot through with the heat of her exertion, but calm again as well, distanced momentarily from her frustration and doubt.