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ESTRANGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does estrange mean? 

ESTRANGE (verb)
  The verb ESTRANGE has 2 senses:

1. remove from customary environment or associationsplay

2. arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendlinessplay

  Familiarity information: ESTRANGE used as a verb is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ESTRANGE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they estrange  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it estranges  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: estranged  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: estranged  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: estranging  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove from customary environment or associations

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

years of boarding school estranged the child from her home

Hypernyms (to "estrange" is one way to...):

move out; remove; take out (cause to leave)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

estrangement (the feeling of being alienated from other people)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

alienate; disaffect; estrange

Context example:

She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious

Hypernyms (to "estrange" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "estrange"):

drift apart; drift away (lose personal contact over time)

wean (detach the affections of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The performance is likely to estrange Sue

Derivation:

estrangement (separation resulting from hostility)


 Context examples 


So far estranged, that I did not expect him to come and speak to me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There was a family quarrel about money which estranged this man Mortimer, but it was supposed to be made up, and I afterwards met him as I did the others.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Such unscientific balderdash, added the doctor, flushing suddenly purple, would have estranged Damon and Pythias.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Our own star at the center of the Solar System is probably no exception, and some astronomers suspect that the Sun's estranged twin might be the evil one, blaming it for the death of the dinosaurs.

(Our Sun Could Have Been Born With an Evil Twin Called "Nemesis", The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Fanny estranged from him, silent and reserved, was an unnatural state of things; a state which he must break through, and which he could easily learn to think she was wanting him to break through.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“I am a married man, and have been so for three years. During that time my wife and I have loved each other as fondly and lived as happily as any two that ever were joined. We have not had a difference, not one, in thought or word or deed. And now, since last Monday, there has suddenly sprung up a barrier between us, and I find that there is something in her life and in her thought of which I know as little as if she were the woman who brushes by me in the street. We are estranged, and I want to know why.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But, my dear Sir, though estranged (by the force of circumstances over which I have had no control) from the personal society of the friend and companion of my youth, I have not been unmindful of his soaring flight.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And in all probability you will see your brother, and whatever may be his faults, or the faults of his wife, when I consider whose son he is, I cannot bear to have you so wholly estranged from each other.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She had too old a regard for him to be so wholly estranged as might in two meetings extinguish every past hope, and leave him nothing to do but to keep away from Uppercross: but there was such a change as became very alarming, when such a man as Captain Wentworth was to be regarded as the probable cause.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Yet now, how distant, how far estranged we were!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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