0 to cause someone to no longer have a friendly relationship with another person or other people: --
They must examine the clean-break arrangements that many people made when they were first estranged.
In my experience, the worst examples are the students who are estranged from their parents.
They see that their estranged parents at least have a relaxed relationship.
Various questions concerning the payment of allowances to separated or estranged wives are under consideration.
They are estranged from home, family, culture and country.
The most general fear is that the proposed structure will become impersonal and that many people will be estranged from the administration.
Far worse, however, an estranged or violent parent could use it as a device to trace other parents or children.
By failing to see what it is, the regime loses its legitimacy and estranges itself from the people and from the international community.
