'Estrange' definitions:

Definition of 'estrange'

From: WordNet
verb
Remove from customary environment or associations; "years of boarding school estranged the child from her home"
verb
Arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness; "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious" [syn: estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect]

Definition of 'Estrange'

From: GCIDE
  • Estrange \Es*trange"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Estranged; p. pr. & vb. n. Estranging.] [OF. estrangier to remove, F. ['e]tranger, L. extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See Strange.]
  • 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. [1913 Webster]
  • We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and distinctly evidenced. --Glanvill. [1913 Webster]
  • Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To divert from its original use or purpose, or from its former possessor; to alienate. [1913 Webster]
  • They . . . have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods. --Jer. xix. 4. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To alienate the affections or confidence of; to turn from attachment to enmity or indifference. [1913 Webster]
  • I do not know, to this hour, what it is that has estranged him from me. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • He . . . had pretended to be estranged from the Whigs, and had promised to act as a spy upon them. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]

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