estrange
verb (used with object)
to turn away in feeling or affection; make unfriendly or hostile; alienate the affections of.
had estranged
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past perfectof estrange.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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In increasingly blistering letters, he had estranged himself from his family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2023
His friend and adviser was Lamenais, whose Paroles d'un Croyant had estranged him from Rome.
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
The women looked at him with surprise; they had never seen him smile thus before, and thought that grief had estranged his mind.
From Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 by Mór Jókai
Or was it Paul Barr's glances that I had estranged?
From A Romantic Young Lady by Robert Grant
Although mesmerism had estranged her from a sister, and theology from a brother, she made no display of bitter feelings towards them and theirs in her last will.
From Harriet Martineau by Florence Fenwick Miller
