estrange

[Es*trange·]

To estrange people may sound like adding wobbly antennae and an extra eyeball to their faces. Really, estrange means to push apart people who were once close to each other and cause them to be like strangers.

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To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with.

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

Verb
remove from customary environment or associations; "Her busy schedule removed her from her duties as a mother"

v. t.
To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with.

v. t.
To divert from its original use or purpose, or from its former possessor; to alienate.

v. t.
To alienate the affections or confidence of; to turn from attachment to enmity or indifference.

Estrange

Es*trange" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Estranged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Estranging.] [OF. estrangier to remove, F. '82tranger, 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.

We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and distinctly evidenced.

Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent.

2. To divert from its original use or purpose, or from its former possessor; to alienate.

They . . . have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods.

3. To alienate the affections or confidence of; to turn from attachment to enmity or indifference.

I do not know, to this hour, what it is that has estranged him from me.

He . . . had pretended to be estranged from the Whigs, and had promised to act as a spy upon them.

To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with.

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Usage Examples

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

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