Crossword clues for estranged
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Wiktionary
Having become a stranger, of one who formerly was close, as a relative, friend, lover, or spouse. v
(en-past of: estrange)
WordNet
adj. caused to be unloved [syn: alienated]
Wikipedia
Estranged is a Malaysian alternative rock band that formed in Damansara, Kuala Lumpur in 2001. Currently comprising vocalist Rich Gimbang, lead guitarist Nor "Enha" Hanafi and rhythm guitarist Din Hormatov, the band have released four full-length albums: In Hating Memory (2004), Remain Unknown (2008), Anugerah Hidup (2013) and Sepenuhnya Vol. 1 (2016).
Estranged is a 2006, 20-minute short film directed by D. J. Matrundola. The film is about a character named Chloe who is forced to reunite with her estranged brother, Julian, and drive down to their mother's hometown. Julian shows up with a precocious twelve-year-old girl named Suzy, unwanted by her divorcing parents and hitching a ride to her aunt's house.
"Estranged" is a power ballad and music video by the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses. It is from the second part of their two-part Use Your Illusion album, Use Your Illusion II.
Usage examples of "estranged".
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.