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Alienated vs Estrange - What's the difference?

alienated | estrange |

As verbs the difference between alienated and estrange

is that alienated is (alienate) while estrange is to cause to feel less close or friendly; alienate to cease contact with (particularly of a family member or spouse, especially in form estranged).

As an adjective alienated

is isolated; excluded; estranged.

alienated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Isolated; excluded; estranged.
  • Derived terms

    * alienatedly

    Verb

    (head)
  • (alienate)
  • estrange

    English

    Verb

    (estrang)
  • To cause to feel less close or friendly; alienate. To cease contact with (particularly of a family member or spouse, especially in form estranged).
  • To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations.
  • Usage notes

    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.

    Synonyms

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

    Derived terms

    * estrangement * estranger

    Coordinate terms

    * (l)

    Anagrams

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