資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.