| VERB | social | estrange | remove from customary environment or associations |
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| emotion | estrange, alienate, disaffect | arouse hostility or indifference / indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness |
| Sounds | ehstrey'njh | |
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| Rhymes | arrange ... strange: 13 rhymes with eynjh... | |
| Meaning | Remove from customary environment or associations. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
| Example | "years of boarding school estranged the child from her home" | |
| Broader | take out, move out, remove | Cause to leave |
| Nouns | estrangement | the feeling of being alienated from other people |
| Meaning | Arouse hostility or indifference / indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody | |
| Model | The performance is likely to estrange Sue | |
| Synonyms | alienate, disaffect | |
| Narrower | drift apart, drift away | Lose personal contact over time |
| wean | detach the affections of | |
| Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
| Spanish | alienar, enajenar | |
| Catalan | alienar | |
| Nouns | estrangement | separation resulting from hostility |
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