different between estrange vs alienate

English

Etymology

From Old French estranger (“to treat as a stranger”), from Latin extraneus (“foreigner, stranger”) (from which also strange, stranger). Also see Spanish extraño.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??st?e?nd?/, /??st?e?nd?/

Verb

estrange (third-person singular simple present estranges, present participle estranging, simple past and past participle estranged)

1. (transitive) 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. (transitive) To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations.

Usage notes

Largely synonymous with alienate, estrange is primarily used to mean “cut off relations”, particularly in a family setting, while alienate is rather used to refer to driving off (“he alienated her with his atrocious behavior”) or to offend a group (“the imprudent remarks alienated the urban demographic”).

When speaking of parents being estranged from a child of theirs, disown is frequently used instead, and has a stronger connotation.

Synonyms

• (cause to feel less close): alienate, antagonize, disaffect, isolate
• (remove from an accustomed context): wean

Coordinate terms

• disown

Derived terms

• estrangement
• estranger

Related terms

• strange
• stranger

Translations

Anagrams

• Sergeant, angerest, enragest, grantees, greatens, negaters, reagents, rentages, reägents, seargent, segreant, sergeant, sternage

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French estrange.

Adjective

estrange m or f (plural estranges)

1. strange; odd; bizarre
2. foreign

Derived terms

• estrangement

Related terms

• estranger

Descendants

• French: étrange

Old French

Etymology

From Latin extr?neus.

Adjective

estrange m (oblique and nominative feminine singular estrange)

1. foreign; overseas

Noun

estrange m (oblique plural estranges, nominative singular estranges, nominative plural estrange)

1. foreigner; non-native

Related terms

• estrangier

Descendants

• Middle French: estrange
  • French: étrange
• ? Middle English: straunge
  • English: strange, estrange

English

Etymology

From Middle English alienat, from Latin ali?n?tus, perfect passive participle of ali?n? (“alienate, estrange”), from ali?nus. See alien, and confer aliene.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?.li.?.ne?t/

Adjective

alienate (not comparable)

1. (archaic, followed by "from") Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign
   • 1667, John Milton. Paradise Lost (line 4643)

     O alienate from God.

Noun

alienate (plural alienates)

1. (obsolete) A stranger; an alien.

Verb

alienate (third-person singular simple present alienates, present participle alienating, simple past and past participle alienated)

1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
2. To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted.
   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening

     The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present.

Usage notes

Alienate is largely synonymous with estrange. However, alienate is used primarily to refer to driving off (“he alienated her with his atrocious behavior”) or to offend a group (“the imprudent remarks alienated the urban demographic”), while estrange is used rather to mean “cut off relations”, particularly in a family setting.

Synonyms

• (estrange): estrange, antagonize, isolate, marginalize

Antonyms

• (estrange): accept

Translations

References

• alienate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Italian

Adjective

alienate f pl

1. feminine plural of alienato

Noun

alienate f

1. plural of alienata

Verb

alienate

1. second-person plural present of alienare
2. second-person plural imperative of alienare
3. feminine plural past participle of alienare

Anagrams

• aneliate

Latin

Verb

ali?n?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ali?n?

Middle English

Adjective

alienate

1. Alternative form of alienat