different between estrange vs estrane

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

Noun

estrane (plural estranes)

1. (American spelling, organic chemistry) A steroid hydrocarbon that is the basis of several female hormones

Alternative forms

• oestrane

Anagrams

• Earnest, Eastern, Saetern, Tareens, earnest, eastern, nearest, renates, sterane