Definitions for estrange

estrange es·trange

Spelling: [ih-streynj]
IPA: /ɪˈstreɪndʒ/

Estrange is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 424 anagrams from letters in estrange (aeegnrst).

Definitions for estrange

verb (used with object)

  1. to turn away in feeling or affection; make unfriendly or hostile; alienate the affections of:
  2. to remove to or keep at a distance:
  3. to divert from the original use or possessor.

Origin of estrange

1475-85; Middle French, Old French estranger; cognate with Portuguese estranhar, Spanish estrañar, Italian straniare Medieval Latin exstrāneāre to treat as a stranger. See Examples for estrange

It will raise ill-blood between them, and estrange our families.

You estrange my own child from me to curry favor with the future king.

Charity may corrupt, correction may harden and estrange,—in the family they do neither.

The title of Christian is a reproach to us, if we estrange ourselves from Him after whom we are denominated.

A man must estrange himself from the world, which is sorrow.

I do not think that my temper, bad as it may be,—nor your own,—would have sufficed to estrange you.

Will it not spoil her for private life; estrange her from family concerns?

How she hated everything that threatened to estrange her lover's heart!

What has happened to estrange you two, who have been chums for so many years?

Is he contradicting some allegation which had helped to estrange the Galatians?

Word Value for estrange
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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