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Definition

arouse hostility or indifference where there had formerly been affection or sympathy

Much more rarely, estrange may mean to remove from customary environment or associations.

He has been estranged from his parents since he told them he is gay.

In her attempt to reach out to moderates, she estranged the most passionate in her own party.
I cannot bear to have you so wholly estranged from each other.
Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility
Say but one affectionate word to me, and tell me there is nothing angry or estranged between us, and I will detain you no longer.
Charles Dickens -- A Tale Of Two Cities
Yet now, how distant, how far estranged we were! So far estranged, that I did not expect him to come and speak to me.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
That thou art then estranged from thyself?
Shakespeare -- The Comedy of Errors
Unable, as she worked, to look at him — such an intimate estrangement, theirs.
Gish Jen -- Typical American
Their minds, lately estranged, seemed suddenly to have been drawn closer, one to the other.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The prince hardly knew anything, for this was the first informant from the household whom he had met since the estrangement.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
A woman of dubious reputation who has long been estranged from her family.
J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
For too long the fact of their estrangement had been public property.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
Estranged, disarranged, we spend our darkest hours staring at those pearls, those coral bones.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
How was I to imagine the Grand Master would go to such ends to deceive me and bequeath the keystone to an estranged granddaughter?
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
It took fourteen days before Ed mustered the courage to pick up the phone and call his estranged wife in California.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
Her estranged husband wanted her dead.
Rick Bragg -- All Over but the Shoutin'
The only descriptions that had ever been leaked were written by a handful of estranged brothers.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
The one in London has been Spencer Cochran's estranged wife.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Her estranged husband, Luc, was also back in the picture, involved in some kind of elaborate financial scheme.
Sarah Dessen -- This Lullaby
There were both truth and error in the impression; the child and mother were estranged, but through Hester's fault, not Pearl's.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
As if the estrangement between them had come of any culpability of hers.
Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities

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