Difference between Estrange and Alienate

What is the difference between Estrange and Alienate?

Estrange as a verb is to cause to feel less close or friendly; alienate. while Alienate as a verb is to convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.

Estrange

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cause to feel less close or friendly; alienate. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations.

Alienate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A stranger; an alien.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to wean.

We hope you now know whether to use Estrange or Alienate in your sentence.

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