Estrange vs Estranged - What's the difference?
estrange | estranged |
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.
(estrange)
Having become a stranger, of one who formerly was close, as a relative, friend, lover, or spouse.
Estranged is a related term of estrange.
As verbs the difference between estrange and estranged
is that 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 {{term|estranged|lang=en}}) while estranged is past tense of estrange.As an adjective estranged is
having become a stranger, of one who formerly was close, as a relative, friend, lover, or spouse.estrange
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Verb
(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
* ----estranged
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Verb
(head)- She estranged her husband by not talking to him for over a year.