estrange

IPA: ɛstrˈeɪndʒ

verb

(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).
(transitive) To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations.

Examples of "estrange" in Sentences

Estrangement and reconciliation with father.
The couple were later separated and estranged.
He could not, and did not estrange his allies.
This was the start of a permanent estrangement.
The public tension caused personal estrangement.
The 'Bases section' was changed in an estrange way.
At the time of this estrangement they had six children.
His estranged wife Robyn is the president of the charity.
Bradman estrangement with his son was in part due to this.
It speaks of the estranged love between the lead characters.
He does not want to "estrange" the son he sees only several times a year.
And home ends up being an old mansion with her hypochondriac of a mother and estrange half-sister.
Never has a football club chosen to estrange itself so thoroughly from the opinion of the rest of the nation.
Some within the US war machine argue that a nastier insurgency is no bad thing, as it would estrange the Taliban more from the population they claim to govern.
I'm taking her hat off, in the rain, her hair spills like spinach all the way down to her backpack, the top pocket where the bowl and the cinnamon estrange themselves from the coffee.
And this very transformation saves him from speaking irresponsible words which estrange without reconciling and from making hasty judgments which are blind to the necessity of social progress.
As Jon Stewart's commentary on Dave Silverman's comments about the World Trade Center memorial demonstrated, unsophisticated criticisms of religion estrange reasonable people -- both fellow atheists, and potential religious allies.

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