verb
definition
To move away (from) someone or something.
example
He distanced himself from the comments made by some of his colleagues.
definition
To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.
Examples of distanced in a Sentence
Previously to that time, one of the Seto experts, Kato Gosuke, had developed remarkable ability in the manufacture of cladon, though in that field he was subsequently distanced by SeifO of KiOto.
He had to encounter very serious opposition from the old actors whom he had distanced, and with the younger actors and actresses he was involved in frequent quarrels.
Distanced though he may have been by Raphael, Francia is rightly regarded as the greatest painter of the earlier Bolognese school, and hardly to be surpassed as representing the art termed "antico-moderno," or of the "quattrocento."
In his accumulation of benefices Wykeham seems to have distanced all his predecessors and successors, except perhaps John Maunsell, the chancellor of Henry III., and Thomas Wolsey, the chancellor of Henry VIII., the latter being a pluralist not in canonries and livings but in bishoprics.
There is this enormous gulf between them, which is amplified by Haynes's use of distanced camera takes.
Children may also feel distanced from the traumatic event by drawing it and talking about what is happening in the picture, as if discussing a character in a book or on television.
Former Playboy bunny Keough claimed her husband distanced himself from her when she gained weight.
In the 17th century the town was the seat of a great book-trade; but it has long been distanced in this department by Leipzig.