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# estranged

«estranged» in Mova's school dictionary: **no longer close to someone, usually a family member or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Estranged means no longer close to someone, usually a family member or husband or wife, because you have stopped speaking or living together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/estranged/#m1)

2) (formal) Cut off or feeling apart from something you once belonged to. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/estranged/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in stories and news about families: «his estranged father», «an estranged wife». It tells the reader there was a break in the relationship, often after a quarrel.

### examples

- She had not spoken to her estranged sister for a long time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/estranged/#x1)
- The estranged brothers met again at the funeral. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/estranged/#x2)
- His estranged wife lives in another city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/estranged/#x3)
- The story is about an estranged father and son who make peace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/estranged/#x4)
- After the argument, they became estranged. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/estranged/#x5)
- The old man wrote to his estranged daughter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/estranged/#x6)

### note

Usually used before a family word (estranged husband, estranged mother). Verb «estrange» is rare. Not the same as «strange» (odd), although they share a root.

### In the corpora

- ["Estranged" means not in contact any more after a quarrel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/10/)
- [The wicked are estranged from the womb; the speakers of lies go astray as soon as they are born.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.949/)
- [They were not estranged from their craving, their food was yet in their mouths,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1357/)
- [He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.479/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «estranged» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/estranged/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.