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English
Etymology
From Old French estranger (“to treat as a stranger”), from Latin extraneus (“foreigner, stranger”) (from which also strange, stranger). Also see Spanish extraño.
Pronunciation
Verb
estrange (third-person singular simple present estranges, present participle estranging, simple past and past participle estranged)
- (transitive) To cause to feel less close or friendly; alienate. To cease contact with (particularly of a family member or spouse, especially in form estranged).
- (transitive) To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations.
Usage notes
Largely synonymous with alienate, estrange is primarily used to mean “cut off relations”, particularly in a family setting, while alienate is rather used to refer to driving off (“he alienated her with his atrocious behavior”) or to offend a group (“the imprudent remarks alienated the urban demographic”).
When speaking of parents being estranged from a child of theirs, disown is frequently used instead, and has a stronger connotation.
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Translations
cause to feel less close or friendly; alienate
— see also fall out
remove from an accustomed place or set of associations
Anagrams
- Sergeant, angerest, enragest, grantees, greatens, negaters, reagents, rentages, reägents, seargent, segreant, sergeant, sternage
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French estrange.
Adjective
estrange m or f (plural estranges)
- strange; odd; bizarre
- foreign
c. 1369, Jean Froissart, Chroniques:Si vous alez guerroier en contree estrange- If you're going to engage in warfare in a foreign country
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Old French
Etymology
From Latin extrāneus.
Adjective
estrange m (oblique and nominative feminine singular estrange)
- foreign; overseas
Noun
estrange oblique singular, m (oblique plural estranges, nominative singular estranges, nominative plural estrange)
- foreigner; non-native
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