Es-trānge', v. t.
[imp. & p. p. ESTRANGED; p. pr. & vb. n. ESTRANGING.] [O. Fr. estranger, estrangier, from estrange, estraigne, strange, absent, foreign. See STRANGE.]
Sense 1. To make strange; to withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with.
We must estrange our belief from what is not clearly evidenced. —Glanville.
Had we estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent. Hooker.
Sense 2. To divert from its original use or possessor; to alienate.
They have estranged this place, and burnt incense in it to other gods. Jer. xix. 4.
Sense 3. To make a stranger of; to alienate the affections or confidence of.
I do not know, to this hour, what it is that has estranged him from me. Pope.