estrange

From Old French estranger (“to treat as a stranger”), from Latin extraneus (“foreigner, stranger”) (from which also strange, stranger). Also see Spanish extraño.

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒ/, /əˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪndʒ

estrange (third-person singular simple present estranges, present participle estranging, simple past and past participle estranged)

1. (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).
   • 1945, Martin Buber, translated by Ludwig Lewisohn, For the Sake of Heaven, The Jewish Publication Society of America, page 229:

     And thou thyself, Jaacob Yitzchak, dost thou mind how thou meantest to follow me and estrangedst thyself from me the more?

2. (transitive) To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations.

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.

• (cause to feel less close): alienate, antagonize, disaffect, isolate
• (remove from an accustomed context): wean

• disown

• estrangement
• estranger

• strange
• stranger

• Sergeant, angerest, enragest, grantees, greatens, negaters, reagents, rentages, reägents, seargent, segreant, sergeant, sternage

From Old French estrange.

estrange m or f (plural estranges)

1. strange; odd; bizarre
   • 1532, François Rabelais, Pantagruel:

     mais leur estat est changé en estrange façon.

     But their state change in a strange fashion

2. 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

• estrangement

• estranger

• French: étrange

From Latin extrāneus.

estrange m (oblique and nominative feminine singular estrange)

1. foreign; overseas

estrange oblique singular, m (oblique plural estranges, nominative singular estranges, nominative plural estrange)

1. foreigner; non-native

• estranger
  • → English: estrange
• estrangier

• Middle French: estrange
  • French: étrange
• Norman: êtrangi
• → Middle English: straunge, strang, strange, stranghe, straunche, straunge, strong, stronge, strounge
  • English: strange
  • Scots: streenge, strynge