What does "estranged" mean?

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What does "estranged" mean?

Answer 1

1...If you describe someone as estranged from something such as society or their profession, you mean that they no longer seemed involved in it.

ex...Arran became increasingly estranged from the mainstream of Hollywood.

2...If you refer to someone as the estranged wife or husband of their partner, you mean that they are no longer living together, and usually they are not in communication with each other.

3...If you are estranged from your family or friends, you have quarrelled with them and are not communicating with them.

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Answer 2

Made into a stranger, made to feel uncomfortable where one belongs, or did before.  No longer close, where before there was intimacy.

Answer 3

caused to be unloved

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[OF. estrangier to remove, F. ['e]tranger, L. extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See {Strange}.]

1.To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with.

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We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and distinctly evidenced. --Glanvill.

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Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent. --Hooker.

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2.To divert from its original use or purpose, or from its former possessor; to alienate.

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They . . . have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods. --Jer. xix.

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3.To alienate the affections or confidence of; to turn from attachment to enmity or indifference.

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I do not know, to this hour, what it is that has estranged him from me. --Pope.

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He . . . had pretended to be estranged from the Whigs, and had promised to act as a spy upon them. --Macaulay.

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To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate.

To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations.

estrange, alienate, disaffect. These verbs refer to disruption of a bond of love, friendship, or loyalty. Estrange and alienate are often used with reference to two persons whose harmonious relationship has been replaced by hostility or indifference: Political disagreements led to quarrels that finally estranged the two friends. His persistent antagonism alienated his wife. Disaffect usually implies discontent, ill will, and disloyalty within the membership of a group: Colonists were disaffected by the royal governor's actions.

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Answer 4

2 meanings:

1. To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate.

2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations.

Answer 5

Basically it means that someone who used to be on good terms with another person is now either not talking to them or not communicatingeffectively any more.  This type of behaviour seems all too common in families where one person gets mad at another and chooses not to be polite or in touch with their formerly loved one.  

Answer 6

"displaying or evincing a feeling of alienation; alienated"

Basically that you don't feel close to someone that you used to feel close to....