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ESTRANGED

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Caused to be unloved

Synonyms:

alienated; estranged

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

unloved (not loved)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb estrange

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 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)