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  1. transitive verb To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate.
  2. transitive verb To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations.
  3. Syntax Note
    Synonyms: 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 Estrange and alienate are often used with reference to two persons whose harmonious relationship has been replaced by hostility or indifference: Political disagreements led to quarrels that finally estranged the two friends.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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  1. Middle English estraungen, from Old French estrangier, from Latin extrāneāre, to treat as a stranger, disown, from extrāneus, foreign; see strange.

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  1. from Middle English estraunge, from Old French estrange, French étrange = Spanish extraño = Portuguese estranho = Italian estraneo, estranio, straneo, stranio, from Latin extraneus, foreign, outside, from extra, without: see extraneous, extra. Hence, by apheresis, strange, q. v.
  2. from Old French estranger, French étranger (= Provencal estranhar = Spanish extrañar = Portuguese estranhar = Italian straniare, stranare), alienate, from Old French estrange, adjective, strange: see estrange, adjective
 

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