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ESTRANGED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Caused to be unloved
Synonyms:
alienated; estranged
Classified under:
Similar:
unloved (not loved)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb estrange
Context examples:
But, my dear Sir, though estranged (by the force of circumstances over which I have had no control) from the personal society of the friend and companion of my youth, I have not been unmindful of his soaring flight.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Sympathies, I believe, exist (for instance, between far-distant, long-absent, wholly estranged relatives asserting, notwithstanding their alienation, the unity of the source to which each traces his origin) whose workings baffle mortal comprehension.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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