View example sentences, synonyms and word forms for Estrange.
Estrange meaning
To cause to feel less close or friendly; alienate. To cease contact with (particularly of a family member or spouse, especially in form estranged). | To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations.
Example sentences (5)
In his rhetoric and in his policies, the president has doubled down on the declining segments of the electorate and ignored — indeed, gone out of his way to estrange — the rising demographics.
MUBA Judges Sarah L’Estrange, Megan O’Brien and Toni Jordan said that Living in Hope is an “important story of survival and hope” and that they “hope the award provides some measure of comfort to his family”.
Both Tory Democracy and this new Liberalism, Gladstone wrote, had done "much to estrange me, and had for many, many years".
It will require much more than difference of opinion to estrange us.
The British government's strategy was to estrange the clan chiefs from their kinsmen and turn their descendants into English-speaking landlords whose main concern was the revenues their estates brought rather than the welfare of those who lived on them.