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Estrange is an English word with synonyms like remove or alienate. Below you'll find 4 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Estrange in a sentence

Related words

Estrange | Estranged | Estrangement

Estrange meaning

  1. To cause to feel less close or friendly; alienate. To cease contact with (particularly of a family member or spouse, especially in form estranged).
  2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations.

Synonyms of Estrange

take out move out remove alienate alien disaffect change alter modify

Related words

Other words often associated with Estrange or its synonyms:

transfer take move add withdraw interpolate sterilise happening outcome vanish unpack exotic

Using Estrange

  • The main meaning on this page is: 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.
  • Useful related words include: take out, move out, remove, alienate.
  • In the example corpus, estrange often appears in combinations such as: to estrange, estrange the.

Context around Estrange

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Sentence patterns with Estrange

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

much to estrange me and 1× opinion to estrange us 1× was to estrange the clan 1× way to estrange the rising 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

both tory democracy 1× in his rhetoric 1× it will require 1× the british government 1×

Common sentence endings:

lived on them 1× many many years 1× the rising demographics 1× to estrange us 1×

Words around Estrange

Just before it in the word index:

estragon 28 estradiol 23 estrada 138 estrace 2 estps 4 estpla 2

Just after it in the word index:

estranged 478 estrangement 57 estranging 1 estraro 2 estrela 4 estrella 40

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaas 7 aacc 7 aacs 7 aafes 7 aah 7 aankh 7

Corpus analysis for Estrange

  • In this selection, "estrange" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Recognizable usage signals include much to estrange me and and opinion to estrange us. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "estrange" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with estrange

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

It will require much more than difference of opinion to estrange us. (12 words)

Both Tory Democracy and this new Liberalism, Gladstone wrote, had done "much to estrange me, and had for many, many years". (21 words)

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. (32 words)

Longer example sentences

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. (41 words)

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. (32 words)

Both Tory Democracy and this new Liberalism, Gladstone wrote, had done "much to estrange me, and had for many, many years". (21 words)

Example sentences (4)

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.

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.

Common combinations with estrange

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "estrange" in a sentence?
An example: "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." This page contains 4 example sentences with the word "estrange" from authentic English texts.
What does "estrange" mean?
Estrange means: To cause to feel less close or friendly; alienate. To cease contact with (particularly of a family member or spouse, especially in form estranged).
What are synonyms of "estrange"?
Common synonyms of "estrange" include: take out, move out, remove, alienate, alien, disaffect, change, alter. Plus 1 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "estrange" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 4 example sentences with "estrange", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.