Crossword clues for estrange
estrange
- Alienate and upset sergeant
- European is by peaks, getting cut off
- Split up and set off with compass
- Sergeant in mess put out of favour
- Needing no introduction, top series set apart
- Alienate bishop leaving most agreeable mountain chain
- Alienate new sergeant
- Is Escoffier’s oven set apart?
- Distance at greens varies
- Tipsy cheerleader maintains consciousness
- Make hostile
- Make an enemy of
- Drive a wedge between
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
--Glanvill.Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent.
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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.
--Jer. xix. 4. -
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.
--Pope.He . . . had pretended to be estranged from the Whigs, and had promised to act as a spy upon them.
--Macaulay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from Middle French estrangier "to alienate," from Vulgar Latin *extraneare "to treat as a stranger," from Latin extraneus "foreign, from without" (see strange). Related: Estranged.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cause to feel less close or friendly; alienate. To cease contact with (particularly of a family member or spouse, especially in form (term estranged English)). 2 (context transitive English) To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations.
WordNet
Usage examples of "estrange".
The driver then turned and spoke to Hala in the native language that Mathew was starting to feel remote and estranged from.
Jorge Grijalva, age 43, was arrested today and booked into the Maricopa County Jail on an open charge of murder in connection with the bludgeon slaying of his estranged wife two weeks ago.
Road only to awaken in a hospital bed with Farrell, his estranged boyhood friend from Rooskey, County Roscommon, watching him.
Mantle holds were each settled by those of the Old Race and there were healers and wise women, and even female sages and mages to be found, such Powers were not avidly sought and those who held them became in time estranged from their clans and after a fashion kinless, living only for the Power.
Michael Santorini is a suspect in the murder of his estranged wife in San Francisco a week ago tonight.
Michael Santorini, the Honolulu psychologist being sought in the brutal slaying of his estranged wife.
I thought his affections seemed estranged from me, I did recur to it to convince myself that I was mistaken.
Graham argued against it, preferring to let his mother stew for a while, but Amanda refused to let him become estranged from his family, so she dragged him along.
Signor Luciano Strega-Borgia, father to Pandora, Titus and Damp, temporarily estranged husband of Signora Baci Strega-Borgia, woke up with a shriek.
June 15, the provincial legislature of New Jersey had ordered the arrest of its royal governor, William Franklin, the estranged, illegitimate son of Benjamin Franklin, and authorized its delegates in Congress to vote for independence.
It was a port and customhouse, a tangle of shipyards, storage drogues, quarantines, and social houses, catering to the vices of the footloose, the isolated, and the estranged.
These indiscretions which you belittle appear to have been enough to have estranged him from his father, a circumstance which but served the more to endear him to his mother.
Mother Lepida had long since tried to warn Messalina of the catastrophe awaiting her conduct, but the advice was spurned and the two had become estranged.
Surrounded by youngsters, who in age might almost have been her own children, with Camilla the only other adult in the room, Margaret had ended up feeling more lonely and estranged than she could have imagined possible.
In a grey prison cell, a long way from home, Signor Luciano Strega-Borgia, father to Pandora, Titus and Damp, temporarily estranged husband of Signora Baci Strega-Borgia, woke up with a shriek.