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What (who) is Estrange - definition
estrange
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Estranged; Estrange; Estranger; Estranges; Estrangement (disambiguation)
v. a.
1.
Withdraw, withhold, keep away.
2.
Divert, alienate, apply to a foreign purpose.
3.
Disaffect, alienate, make unfriendly, make disaffected, destroy one's affections, turn away.
estrange
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Estranged; Estrange; Estranger; Estranges; Estrangement (disambiguation)
[?'stre?n(d)?, ?-]
¦ verb
1. cause to feel less close or friendly; alienate.
2. [as adjective estranged] (of a husband or wife) no longer living with their spouse.
Derivatives
estrangement noun
Origin
C15: from OFr. estranger, from L. extraneare 'treat as a stranger'.
Estrange
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Estranged; Estrange; Estranger; Estranges; Estrangement (disambiguation)
·vt To alienate the affections or confidence of; to turn from attachment to enmity or indifference.
II. Estrange ·vt To divert from its original use or purpose, or from its former possessor; to Alienate.
Examples of use of Estrange
1. Forced to estrange themselves from their families, they lived separately like sub–humans on meagre allowances, cold and hungry in safe houses and controlled by Hendy–Freegard.
2. They bitterly denounced the Japanese police authorities‘ repeated suppression as a fascist tyrannical action to estrange the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) from Koreans in Japan and destroy Chongryon.
3. In the film, Harilal views Gandhi as alternately aloof and domineering, stubborn and even selfish, traits that helped estrange his eldest son, even though firstborn males are traditionally the most favored children in Indian culture.
4. My proposal is this: these two brothers were "set up" by extremists of their own faith in order to further estrange a much wider section of Muslims around the country.