Estrange

Definitions: Estrange

Estrange

Verb

1. Remove from customary environment or associations; "Her busy schedule removed her from her duties as a mother".

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

Date "estrange" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Estrange \Es*trange"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Estranged; present participle verb or noun Estranging.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Estrange

Synonyms: alien (v), alienate (v), disaffect (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Enmity	Verb: be inimical; Adjective: keep at arm's length, hold at arm's length; be at loggerheads; bear malice; fall out; take umbrage; harden the heart, alienate, estrange.
Hate	Excite hatred, provoke hatred; Noun: be hateful; Adjective: stink in the nostrils; estrange, alienate, repel, set against, sow dissension, set by the ears, envenom, incense, irritate, rile; horrify; roil.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Estrange

English words defined with "estrange": Abalienate ♦ Over and above ♦ To go down. (references)

Specialty definitions using "estrange": Invective ♦ Jug ♦ Sanskrit, Shirt ♦ Tattoo ♦ Yew Tree. (references)

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Language		Translations for "estrange"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		largoj (avert, avoid, brush away, brush off, call off, cast out, despatch, dislodge, dismiss, dispatch, dispel, divert, eliminate, freeze out, keep away, keep off, lead off, lift out, pack off, push aside, push away, push off, put off, relegate, remove, seclude, stave off, take away, turn, wean, whiffle). (various references)

Arabic		‏قصى (disbar, eliminate, exclude), ‏إنفصل (become airborne, break away, break up, break with, dissociate, dissociate oneself from, segment, separate, sever, split up, sunder, tear oneself away), ‏أبعد (alien, alienate, bounce, deport, distance, drive away, drive out, exclude, far, farther, hold off, oust, out of the way, outmost, preclude, relegate, send, send packing, stave off, supplant, take away, throw out, transport, ulterior, ultimate, warn off). (various references)

Bulgarian		отчуждавам (alienate, expropriate, sequester), отблъсквам (avert, beat off, counter, drive back, fight off, foil, head off, jar, press back, push away, push back, put off, rebuff, reject, repulse, resist, spurn, stave off, throw back, thrust aside, turn off, ward), отделям (abstract, cull, detach, discharge, disestablish, disjoin, dissever, disunite, educe, eject, eliminate, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, extricate, exude, insulate, isolate, lay aside, part, prescind, pry, screen, seclude, secrete, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set off, sever, sort, spare, tear away, unfix, unjoin, unyoke), настройвам срещу (set against, turn against). (various references)

Chinese		疏远 (Alienate, Alienated, Alienating, Alienation, Distanced, Distancing, Estranged, Estranging). (various references)

Czech		rozejít se (break up, disject, disperse, fall out, part, separate, sheer off, split up), odcizit (alienate, purloin, run away, steal). (various references)

Farsi		دلسردکردن (Discourage, Dishearten, Disspirit, Dissuade, Unnerve), دورکردن (Abduct, Dispossess, Distance, Oust, Parry, Remove), بیگانه کردن (Alienate, Stranger). (various references)

Finnish		vieroittaa (alienate, break somebody of a habit, wean). (various references)

French		se séparer, faire éloigner, éloigner. (various references)

German		entfremden (alienate). (various references)

Greek		αποξενώνω (alienate). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"ת� כר (deny, ignore, neglect, renounce, repudiate). (various references)

Hungarian		eltávolít (clear away, dislodge, extract, flick off, relegate, remove, to alien, to brush aside, to clear away, to cut out, to defecate, to depose, to dislodge, to distance, to do away, to eliminate, to estrange, to expel, to extract, to obliterate, to prune away, to prune down, to replace, to sequester, to take out, to weed out, wipe off), elidegenít (alienate, to alien, to alienate, to disincline, to estrange). (various references)

Indonesian		menjauhkan. (various references)

Italian		alienare (alienate, transfer). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		懸け�"てる (to estrange, to put distance between), 水�'注す (to estrange, to pour water, to throw cold water), 水�'さす (to estrange people). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かけへ� てる (to estrange, to put distance between), みず�'さす (to estrange, to estrange people, to pour water, to throw cold water). (various references)

Norwegian		fremmedgjøre. (various references)

Pig Latin		estrangeay

Portuguese		tornar estranho, interdição (interdict, proclamation, prohibition, prose, taboo). (various references)

Romanian		înstrãina (alienate, defalcate, divide, embezzle), îndepãrta (avert, carry off, cast, chase away, clean, clear, cut out, discard, dismiss, drive away, eliminate, fence off, lay, move away, remove, retire, ward off, withdraw). (various references)

Russian		отчуждать (alienate, expropriate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zavaditi (alienate, set against), zakrviti, udaljiti se (depart, digress, turn away, wander), udaljiti (alienate, remove, send down), posvađati (alienate), otuđiti (alienate), odroditi (alienate). (various references)

Spanish		alejarse (bear off, draw away, flounce away, move away, move off, pass over, recede, walk away, walk off). (various references)

Swedish		stöta bort. (various references)

Thai		ทำให้บา�"หมาง. (various references)

Turkish		yabancılaştırmak (alienate), uzaklaştırmak (can, cast out, deport, remove, rout out, rout up, send away, suspend, uproot), soğutmak (alienate, cool, disincline, indispose, offput, put off, refrigerate, wean). (various references)

Ukranian		відстороняти, відштовхувати (push away, push off, repel, thrust aside), віддаляти (alienate, distance, set apart). (various references)

Welsh		dieithrio (alienate). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	abalienabantur, abalienabit, abalienarentur, abalienati, abalienavit, aliena, alienas, alienati, alienatus, alienavit, alieno, distraho, extraneus. (various references)
Middle French	1400-1600	estrangier. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "estrange": estranged, estrangement, estrangements, estranger, estrangers, estranges. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Estrange" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: astrange, Esrange, Estang, Estanguet, Estaugh, Estridge, etrange, etranger, extrange, Oestringen, oestrone. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "estrange" (pronounced estrā"nj)
6	-s t r ā" n j	strange.
4	-r ā" n j	derange, Grange, range.
3	-ā" n j	arrange, change, exchange, interchange, mange, prearrange, rearrange, shortchange.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: grantees, greatens, negaters, reagents, sergeant.
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-n-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: argents, earnest, eastern, enrages, ergates, garnets, gerents, grantee, greaten, nearest, negater, negates, reagent, regents, restage, strange.
	-2 letters: agenes, agents, agrees, angers, antres, aretes, argent, astern, eagers, eagres, easter, eaters, egesta, egrets, enates, enrage, entera, enters, ergate, garnet, gaster, genera, genets, genres, gentes, gerent, grants, grates, grease, greats, greens, greets, neater, negate, nester.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-n-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: agentries, estranged, estranger, estranges, generates, gratinees, greatness, reseating, segregant, sergeants, sergeanty, stingaree, teenagers.
	+2 letters: agreements, argentines, argentites, augmenters, denigrates, entanglers, entourages, estrangers, estreating, generalist, generators, germinates, gravestone, guarantees, integrates, interstage, parentages, rectangles, segmentary, segregants, steamering, stingarees, strangered, superagent, tangerines, teratogens.
	+3 letters: baronetages, congregates, degenerates, dermatogens, desecrating, ergotamines, everlasting, featherings, garnierites, generalists, generations, glabrescent, goaltenders, gravestones, greasepaint, greatnesses, greenhearts, hatemongers, impregnates, intergrades, magnetizers, nearsighted, nitrogenase, outgenerals, pageantries, percentages, ravagements, rearguments, rearresting, reasserting, refastening, regenerates, regimentals, relegations, remastering, segregating, segregation, sergeanties, strangeness, superagents, transgender, vegetarians, weatherings.
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