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[ US /ɛˈstɹeɪndʒ/ ]
[ UK /ɛstɹˈe‍ɪnd‍ʒ/ ]
VERB
  1. remove from customary environment or associations
    years of boarding school estranged the child from her home
  2. arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
    She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious

How To Use estrange In A Sentence

  • We had many family quarrels about it, and they began in time to grow up to a dangerous height; for as I was quite estranged form my husband (as he was called) in affection, so I took no heed to my words, but sometimes gave him language that was provoking; and, in short, strove all I could to bring him to a parting with me, which was what above all things in the world I desired most. Moll Flanders
  • About to be disinherited from the family fortune, Stephen returns to home after a long estrangement and it happens to be the night his father is shot to death. The Inheritance by Simon Tolkien: Book summary
  • That means Schwarzenegger's earnings from a career as a Hollywood megastar, which allowed him to forgo a salary as governor and commute by private jet to Sacramento, likely will be evenly divided with his estranged wife. Maria Shriver files to divorce Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • The 63-year-old had not seen her estranged son for years until he turned up out of the blue on her doorstep. The Sun
  • When you really love something when you will find language how fragile and limp. Text and feeling always have the estrangement.
  • Ne vous fachez iamais en table, quoy qu'il aduienne, ou bien si vous vous fachez, n'ent faites point de semblant, principalement y ayant des estrangers a table. George Washington's Rules of Civility
  • If there is a perception that the elite end of the game has sometimes become estranged from the volunteers that drive the grassroots, Steele has vowed to bring them back together, using the prize of a home World Cup as the driving force. 2015 will offer us an opportunity in three areas. England can win 2015 World Cup, says RFU chief executive John Steele
  • The girls confront each other about their dead mom and their growing estrangement.
  • He has consistently denied murdering his estranged wife.
  • Jamie Blandford broke his silence after two jail terms and an estranged marriage, to appear on breakfast television.
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