ESTRANGE, v.t. 1. To keep at a distance; to withdraw; to cease to frequent and be familiar with.Had we estranged ourselves form them in things indifferent.I thus estrange my person from her bed.2. To alienate; to divert from its original use or possessor; to apply to a purpose foreign from its original or customary one.They have estranged this place, and burnt incense in it to other gods. Jer.19.3. To alienate, as the affections; to turn from kindness to indifference or malevolence.I do not know, to this hour, what it is that has estranged him from me.4. To withdraw; to withhold.We must estrange our belief from what is not clearly evidenced.
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