Vocabulary Word
Word: estranged
Definition: separated; alienated; V. estrange: alienate (people in a family); N. estrangement
Definition: separated; alienated; V. estrange: alienate (people in a family); N. estrangement
Sentences Containing 'estranged'
Say but one affectionate word to me, and tell me there is nothing angry or estranged between us, and I will detain you no longer.''
He is estranged from our eldest son and daughter, he has no pride in his twins, he looks with an eye of coldness even on the unoffending stranger who last became a member of our circle.
'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.
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