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estrangement

/ih-streynj-muhnt/US // ɪˈstreɪndʒ mənt //

疏远,疏离,疏远感,隔阂

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state of being alienated or separated in feeling or affection; a state of hostility or unfriendliness:Since the summer there’s been a rift in the family over something that my daughter posted online, and I still can't figure out how this estrangement occurred over something so silly.Diplomatic relations between the two nations were officially restored after more than five decades of estrangement.
    • : the state of being separated or removed:After years of forced estrangement, the families of people living in the vast refugee camp are finally beginning to get some news of their relatives there.

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Examples

  • You have taken your disappointment and magnified it into a blooming estrangement.

  • In other words, you proceed in such a manner that puts the responsibility for their next familial estrangement precisely where it belongs.

  • For income, Lala braids hair along the beach, estranged from Wilma, who has sniffed the corruption on Adan and turned her face away.

  • As you've noted, often these estrangements carry on through generations.

  • That not only includes you in any further estrangement he chooses, but also increases the likelihood he’ll choose it.

  • Poverty, alienation, estrangement, continuously aggravated by racism, overt and institutional.

  • Those views contribute to a sense of estrangement Muslims feel from the rest of British society.

  • The estrangement, as emotional as it is physical, will be 21 years old in August.

  • So where exactly is the line that a family member must cross for estrangement to be justified and furthermore not stigmatized?

  • Her departure from her kids when they were young was like a severing of relations, an estrangement that has not eased to this day.

  • Absolute estrangement had followed the birth of their child nearly twenty years ago.

  • Though Castiglione thus brought him fresh honours, it nearly caused an estrangement between him and his chief.

  • Marmont indignantly refused to go in such a capacity, and a permanent estrangement nearly took place.

  • These discussions ended in an estrangement, for some time, between the two cronies.

  • There was a scene, however, which particularly marked the moment when in the life of this husband and wife estrangement began.