estrange

== English == === Etymology === From Old French estranger (“to treat as a stranger”), from Latin extraneus (“foreigner, stranger”) (from which also strange, stranger). Also see Spanish extraño. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɪˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒ/, /əˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒ/ Rhymes: -eɪndʒ === Verb === estrange (third-person singular simple present estranges, present participle estranging, simple past and past participle estranged) (transitive) To cause to feel less close or friendly; alienate. To cease contact with (particularly of a family member or spouse, especially in form estranged). (transitive) 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 ==== Coordinate terms ==== disown ==== Derived terms ==== estrangement estranger ==== Related terms ==== strange stranger ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Sergeant, angerest, enragest, grantees, greatens, negaters, reagents, rentages, reägents, seargent, segreant, sergeant, sternage == Middle French == === Etymology === From Old French estrange. === Adjective === estrange m or f (plural estranges) strange; odd; bizarre foreign ==== Derived terms ==== estrangement ==== Related terms ==== estranger ==== Descendants ==== French: étrange == Old French == === Etymology === From Latin extrāneus. === Adjective === estrange m (oblique and nominative feminine singular estrange) foreign; overseas === Noun === estrange oblique singular, m (oblique plural estranges, nominative singular estranges, nominative plural estrange) foreigner; non-native ==== Derived terms ==== estranger → English: estrange estrangier ==== Descendants ==== Middle French: estrangeFrench: étrange Norman: êtrangi → Middle English: straunge, strang, strange, stranghe, straunche, strong, stronge, stroungeEnglish: strangeScots: streenge, strynge