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# estranged

adjective

«estranged» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/estranged/#m2)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/estranged/#x1)
- The estranged brothers met again at the funeral. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/estranged/#x2)
- His estranged wife lives in another city. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/estranged/#x4)
- After the argument, they became estranged. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/estranged/#x5)
- The old man wrote to his estranged daughter. [tree →](https://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 Jewish tradition

It means turned away from or made a stranger. It can be a person cut off from friends, or wicked people who go wrong from birth.

**Interpretation.** Job feels that all his friends and family have abandoned him. The psalm is read as a strong picture of how deeply wrongdoing can take hold.

### Examples

- They were not estranged from their craving, their food was yet in their mouths, (Writings PSA.78.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/estranged/#x1)
- He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me. (Writings JOB.19.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/estranged/#x2)
- The wicked are estranged from the womb; the speakers of lies go astray as soon as they are born. (Writings PSA.58.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/estranged/#x3)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «estranged» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/estranged/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «estranged» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/estranged/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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