MEANING
To cause someone to become emotionally distant from, or lose affection for, another person or group.
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Words that belong together
- estrange someone from family
- become estranged
On the page
Repeated small betrayals estranged him from friends who had once defended him.
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Word forms
- Base
- estrange
- Past tense
- estranged
- Past participle
- estranged
- Present participle
- estranging
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- estrange
- Present continuous
- am/is/are estranging
- Present perfect
- have/has estranged
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been estranging
- Past
- estranged
- Past continuous
- was/were estranging
- Past perfect
- had estranged
- Past perfect continuous
- had been estranging
- Future
- will estrange
- Future continuous
- will be estranging
- Future perfect
- will have estranged
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been estranging
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: estrange; estranges; estranged; estranged; estranging Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, character. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: estranges.
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