Estrange vs Bestrange - What's the difference?
estrange | bestrange |
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.
(lb) To make strange, foreign, or alien; alieniate; estrange.
*2004 , Tony Bennett, Formalism and Marxism - Page 51 :
In transitive terms the difference between estrange and bestrange
is that estrange is to remove from an accustomed place or set of associations while bestrange is to make strange, foreign, or alien; alieniate; estrange.estrange
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(estrang)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) weanDerived terms
* estrangement * estrangerCoordinate terms
* (l)Anagrams
* ----bestrange
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(en-verb)- His account of the means whereby Tolstoy 'bestranges' the romantic idealization of war affords a useful illustration.