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/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -eɪndʒ

Verb

estrange (third-person singular simple present estranges, present participle estranging, simple past and past participle estranged)

1. (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).
   • 1945, Martin Buber, translated by Ludwig Lewisohn, For the Sake of Heaven, The Jewish Publication Society of America, page 229:

     And thou thyself, Jaacob Yitzchak, dost thou mind how thou meantest to follow me and estrangedst thyself from me the more?

2. (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

cause to feel less close or friendly; alienate

• Bulgarian: отчуждавам (bg) (otčuždavam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 疏遠／疏远 (zh) (shūyuǎn)

• Czech: odcizit (cs)
• Dutch: vervreemden (nl)
• Esperanto: fremdigi
• Finnish: vieraannuttaa
• French: éloigner (fr)
• German: entfremden (de)
• Greek: αποξενώνω (el) (apoxenóno)

  Ancient: ἀλλοτριόω (allotrióō)

• Hungarian: elidegenít (hu)
• Italian: estraniare (it)
• Latin: alieno, abalieno
• Macedonian: о́туѓи (ótuǵi)
• Maori: whakatangatakē
• Old English: āfremdan
• Russian: отчужда́ть (ru) impf (otčuždátʹ), отчуди́ть (ru) pf (otčudítʹ), отдаля́ть (ru) impf (otdaljátʹ), отдали́ть (ru) pf (otdalítʹ)
• Spanish: alienar (es), enajenar (es)
• Thai: ทำให้บาดหมาง (tam hâi bàat măang)

remove from an accustomed place or set of associations

• Dutch: ontwortelen (nl)
• Finnish: vieraannuttaa
• French: aliéner (fr)
• German: entfremden (de)
• Macedonian: одда́лечи (oddáleči), о́туѓи (ótuǵi)
• Russian: отстраня́ть (ru) impf (otstranjátʹ), отстрани́ть (ru) pf (otstranítʹ)

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)

1. strange; odd; bizarre
   • 1532, François Rabelais, Pantagruel:

     mais leur estat est changé en estrange façon.

     But their state change in a strange fashion

2. foreign
   • c. 1369, Jean Froissart, Chroniques:

     Si vous alez guerroier en contree estrange

     If you're going to engage in warfare in a foreign country

Derived terms

• estrangement

Related terms

• estranger

Descendants

• French: étrange

Old French

Etymology

From Latin extrāneus.

Adjective

estrange m (oblique and nominative feminine singular estrange)

1. foreign; overseas

Noun

estrange oblique singular, m (oblique plural estranges, nominative singular estranges, nominative plural estrange)

1. foreigner; non-native

Derived terms

• estranger
  • → English: estrange
• estrangier

Descendants

• Middle French: estrange
  • French: étrange
• Norman: êtrangi
• → Middle English: straunge, strang, strange, stranghe, straunche, straunge, strong, stronge, strounge
  • English: strange
  • Scots: streenge, strynge