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ESTRANGE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness

Example:

She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious

Synonyms:

alienate; disaffect; estrange

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "estrange" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "estrange"):

drift apart; drift away (lose personal contact over time)

wean (detach the affections of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The performance is likely to estrange Sue

Derivation:

estrangement (separation resulting from hostility)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Remove from customary environment or associations

Example:

years of boarding school estranged the child from her home

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "estrange" is one way to...):

move out; remove; take out (cause to leave)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

estrangement (the feeling of being alienated from other people)

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 Context examples: 

He is estranged from our eldest son and daughter, he has no pride in his twins, he looks with an eye of coldness even on the unoffending stranger who last became a member of our circle.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Sympathies, I believe, exist (for instance, between far-distant, long-absent, wholly estranged relatives asserting, notwithstanding their alienation, the unity of the source to which each traces his origin) whose workings baffle mortal comprehension.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)