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Estrange   /ɛstrˈeɪndʒ/   Listen
verb
Estrange  v. t.  (past & past part. estranged; pres. part. estranging)  
1.
To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. "We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and distinctly evidenced." "Had we... estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent."
2.
To divert from its original use or purpose, or from its former possessor; to alienate. "They... have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods."
3.
To alienate the affections or confidence of; to turn from attachment to enmity or indifference. "I do not know, to this hour, what it is that has estranged him from me." "He... had pretended to be estranged from the Whigs, and had promised to act as a spy upon them."






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"Estrange" Quotes from Famous Books



... to estrange us, and I suspect that those tale-bearers who repeated alternately to you and to me our mutual expressions were the chief obstacles to any good understanding between us. Each believed that what was said proceeded from deliberate ...
— Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1 of 2 • Lady Wallace

... repentance only brings, Doth bid me, now, my heart from Love estrange! Love is disdained when it doth look at Kings; And Love low placed base and apt to change. There Power doth take from him his liberty, Her[e] Want of Worth makes him in cradle die. O sweet woods! the delight of solitariness! O how much ...
— Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age • Various

... mine, if I should other deem, Nor can coy Fortune contrary allow: But, my Anselmo, loth I am to say I must estrange that friendship— Misconsture not, tis from the Realm, not thee: Though Lands part Bodies, Hearts keep company. Thou knowst that I imparted often have Private relations with my royal Sire, Had as concerning beautious Amadine, Rich Aragon's bright ...
— 2. Mucedorus • William Shakespeare [Apocrypha]

... of Verdun Royal, sir," she replied. "I left because Miss L'Estrange was growing up, and my lady wished ...
— Wife in Name Only • Charlotte M. Braeme (Bertha M. Clay)

... like angels' sympathies, Is as the breath of Heaven and cannot change No earthly shudder taints its sinless kiss. No sorrow can your loving hearts estrange; No selfish pride destroy the priceless bliss Of loving and confiding. Oh exchange Not love like this, so heavenly and so true. For all the vows that lovers' ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 • Various


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