(v. t.) To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with.
(v. t.) To divert from its original use or purpose, or from its former possessor; to alienate.
(v. t.) To alienate the affections or confidence of; to turn from attachment to enmity or indifference.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, a provision in the deal ensures that Sterling’s estranged wife Shelly, current trustee of the Sterling Family Trust, will remain associated with the team as its “owner emeritus and No1 fan”.
(2) A day after making a personal appeal to the US and Cuban leaders to end their half-century of estrangement , Francis issued his plea to Colombia’s warring factions from Revolution Plaza at the end of his Sunday mass.
(3) As a result of this synthesis the sensation of "ego", appears, and information estranged from it and offered for others is determined.
(4) Attorney Adam Streisand said the deal was closed Tuesday morning following weeks of legal wrangling between the team’s previous owner, billionaire Donald Sterling, and his estranged wife, Shelly.
(5) Her estranged father had initially opposed her wishes.
(6) The claim was made in the high court in London by Young's estranged wife, Michelle, who is divorcing him.
(7) As a result of Wesker’s affairs, Dusty and Wesker were estranged and Wesker went to live in Wales.
(8) The revulsion was shared by Breivik's estranged father.
(9) Another told police that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel “couldn’t understand why Isis couldn’t claim its own territory” and others quizzed by detectives, including his estranged wife, spoke of his “violent behaviour”, Molins said.
(10) In the vocational, comprehensive, and agricultural schools, the dropouts scored more positively on the self-estrangement, meaninglessness, and misfeasance scales.
(11) So Shelly Sterling’s reward is to remain a visible part of the franchise, courtside whenever she feels like it, while her estranged husband is banned from the stadium.
(12) It is one of the few things upon which politicians and an estranged electorate agree.
(13) Faced with a violent stepfather and a mother with mental health issues (from whom he is now estranged), he took solace in his teddy bear, Alan Measles.
(14) The King's friendship with Robert Carr (who was later made Earl of Somerset), coupled with his estrangement from Queen Anne, may have been an inspiration for at least two literary accounts of kingship confounded by sex: Lady Mary Wroth's Urania (1621) and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (1608).
(15) The planned apology over Iraq is aimed at helping win back party members who either left or have stayed but felt estranged as a result of the decision to go to war, which Corbyn voted against.
(16) Before she got that opportunity, however, she was shot dead in 2009 by her estranged husband, who promptly killed himself as well.
(17) Certain family situiations create a split between some family members and the suicidal adolescent to the point of total estrangement.
(18) Although Levene and PiL frontman John Lydon remain estranged, Commercial Zone 2014 has the support of the band's former drummer, Martin Atkins.
(19) I asked Coleman if it is ever really possible to be estranged from your family when online culture is so prevalent.
(20) might persuade his estranged wife to lobby on his behalf to her dad.
Separate
Definition:
(v. t.) To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.
(v. t.) To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and Africa.
(v. t.) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
(v. i.) To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from one another; as, the family separated.
(p. a.) Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected.
(p. a.) Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said of things that have not been connected.
(p. a.) Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate spirit; the separate state of souls.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
(2) Chapter one Announcement of the Islamic Caliphate The announcement of the renewal of the caliphate in Iraq in the year 1427AH [2006] was the arbiter between division and separation as well as the glory of the Muslims.
(3) The adjacent gauge was separated from the ischemic segment by one large nonoccluded diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery.
(4) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
(5) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
(6) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
(7) In the present study, respirometric quotients, the ratio of oral air volume expended to total volume expended, were obtained using separate but simultaneous productions of oral and nasal airflow.
(8) The sensitivity of an indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) test (screening test) for the detection of antibodies to cytomegalovirus (CMV) was examined by using 128 serum specimens and quaternary aminoethyl (QAE)-Sephadex A50 column chromatography to separate IgM from IgG class antibodies.
(9) This experimental system allows separation of three B lymphocyte developmental stages: early differentiation in vitro, progression to IgM secretion in vivo, and late differentiation dependent upon mature T lymphocytes in vivo.
(10) The individual classes of drugs are first treated separately to highlight specific aspects of their quantification, and this is followed by an overview of those methods permitting the concomitant analysis of two or more antiepileptic compounds.
(11) The ADAM derivative of carnitine was separated from decomposition products of the reagent and related compounds such as amino acid derivatives on a silica gel column eluted with methanol-5% aqueous SDS-phosphoric acid (990:10:1).
(12) Each patient contributed only once to each phase (105 in phase 1, 107 in phase 2), but some entered both phases on separate occasions.
(13) Twenty volunteers were used for the measurement of pedal pressures for 15 trials during three separate sessions.
(14) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
(15) Densitometric analysis of myofibrillar proteins separated with sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicated that troponin I and troponin T were degraded during 60 minutes of CGI.
(16) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
(17) Sephadex LH-20 column chromatography was used for the separation of the steroid prior to assay.
(18) The deletions and substitutions appear to occur in separate molecules.
(19) The canine system allows quantitative separation of native heme containing alpha and beta chains which recombine to for tetrameric hemoglobin with normal functional properties (n = 2.17).
(20) Prothrombin isolation on DEAE Sephadex failed to separate the abnormal population (prothrombin Clamart) from the normal one.