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socially distance

socially distance is the alternative form of social distance.

Meaning of social distance

Verb

social distance (third-person singular simple present social distances, present participle social distancing, simple past and past participle social distanced)

  1. To maintain a certain distance between at least two people to contain the spread of an infectious disease.

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Forms of socially distance

third-person singular presentsocially distances
present participlesocially distancing
past participlesocially distanced
pastsocially distanced

Questions about socially distance

What is socially distance the alternative form of?
Socially distance is the alternative form of social distance.

Words near socially distance in the dictionary

  1. socializers
  2. socializes
  3. socializing
  4. socializings
  5. socially
  6. socially distance
  7. socially distanced
  8. socially distances
  9. socially distancing
  10. socially distant
  11. socially fluent

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Adapted from Wiktionary: socially distance (page history and authors); social distance (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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