distanced

verb

past tense of distance
1
as in retreated

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2
as in flung

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for distanced
  1. retreated
  2. flung
  3. receded
  4. discarded
  5. dispelled
  6. dumped
  7. dispersed
  8. shed
Verb
  • As the Laurentide retreated across the plateau, tundra plants colonized the newly bare ground.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 24 Oct. 2026
  • As the world has become more and more connected, governments have retreated from global problems.
    — David Miliband, Time, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of retreated
Verb
  • Guests who think an occasional bottle of wine flung on the counter has rendered this custom obsolete should note that any sensible hostess will disagree.
    — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Within five minutes, the curtain was flung back again and one of the medical students bolted out of the department in a panic.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of flung
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  • The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite receded more than 5% and finished in correction territory alongside the small-cap Russell 2000 index.
    — Sean Conlon,Gina Francolla,Christopher Hayes,Nick Wells, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Over the following decades, the requests and delays while jacks were fiddled gradually receded.
    — Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of receded
Verb
  • This could help establish a circular supply chain in which discarded electronic components become feedstock for new industrial applications.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Popular imagination dismissed her as one of the lonely and disappointed women in a cardigan who peopled her novels, her books discarded as conservative and constricting.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of discarded
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  • Fears that Kirk would not work well with the Democratic cabinet were dispelled by Broward Williams, celebrating his retention of the state treasurer’s office at his home at Tallahassee.
    — Roger Simmons, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Washington’s trade truce with Beijing has dispelled illusions that the transatlantic partners form a united front and made European partners doubt that the United States will come to their aid.
    — THEODORE BUNZEL, Foreign Affairs, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of dispelled
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  • The first atmospheric river to hit the Southwest this season dumped up to five times the average rain for November in parts of the region, triggering destructive flooding for the second consecutive month.
    — Suheir Hashimeh, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Farmers dumped manure on the streets of Turin on Friday as mass demonstrations unfurled across more than 50 cities in Italy.
    — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of dumped
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  • As the twentieth century dispersed Russia’s literati, some left this nostalgic concept behind, while others trailed its shadow with them into exile, burying themselves in the great Russian novels that had formed its foundation.
    — Madeleine Wulfahrt, New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2026
  • The human beings are not freely dispersed around the central figure of God, in this panel, but ranked in strict tiers from the lowest unfortunates to the highest saints.
    — Artforum, Artforum, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of dispersed
Verb
  • In recent years, insurance companies have restricted business and shed large numbers of policies following catastrophic wildfires and fears about more in the future.
    — Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026
  • At the time, tastemakers were shedding the darker, heavier, traditionalist aesthetics of the Victorian era.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of shed
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“Distanced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distanced. Accessed 8 Nov. 2026.

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