v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Estranged p. pr. & vb. n. Estranging. ] [ OF. estrangier to remove, F. étranger, L. extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See Strange. ] 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. [ 1913 Webster ]

We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and distinctly evidenced. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To divert from its original use or purpose, or from its former possessor; to alienate. [ 1913 Webster ]

They . . . have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods. Jer. xix. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To alienate the affections or confidence of; to turn from attachment to enmity or indifference. [ 1913 Webster ]

I do not know, to this hour, what it is that has estranged him from me. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

He . . . had pretended to be estranged from the Whigs, and had promised to act as a spy upon them. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. estrangement. ] The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation. [ 1913 Webster ]

An estrangement from God. J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]

A long estrangement from better things. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who estranges. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To strangle. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Strong. ] Strong. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Strangely. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Most strange, but yet most truly, will I speak. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To be estranged or alienated. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To wonder; to be astonished. [ Obs. ] Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To alienate; to estrange. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Stranger superl. Strangest ] [ OE. estrange, F. étrange, fr. L. extraneus that is without, external, foreign, fr. extra on the outside. See Extra, and cf. Estrange, Extraneous. ] 1. Belonging to another country; foreign. “To seek strange strands.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

One of the strange queen's lords. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues. Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic. [ 1913 Webster ]

So she, impatient her own faults to see,
Turns from herself, and in strange things delights. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not before known, heard, or seen; new. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here is the hand and seal of the duke; you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer. “He is sick of a strange fever.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sated at length, erelong I might perceive
Strange alteration in me. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Reserved; distant in deportment. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Backward; slow. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Who, loving the effect, would not be strange
In favoring the cause. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced. [ 1913 Webster ]

In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Strange is often used as an exclamation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Strange! what extremes should thus preserve the snow
High on the Alps, or in deep caves below. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Strange sail (Naut.), an unknown vessel. --
Strange woman (Script.), a harlot. Prov. v. 3. --
To make it strange. (a) To assume ignorance, suspicion, or alarm, concerning it. Shak. (b) To make it a matter of difficulty. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. --
To make strange,
To make one's self strange. (a) To profess ignorance or astonishment. (b) To assume the character of a stranger. Gen. xlii. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Foreign; new; outlandish; wonderful; astonishing; marvelous; unusual; odd; uncommon; irregular; queer; eccentric. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. As something foreign, or not one's own; in a manner adapted to something foreign and strange. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In the manner of one who does not know another; distantly; reservedly; coldly. [ 1913 Webster ]

You all look strangely on me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I do in justice charge thee . . .
That thou commend it strangely to some place
Where chance may nurse or end it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In a strange manner; in a manner or degree to excite surprise or wonder; wonderfully. [ 1913 Webster ]

How strangely active are the arts of peace! Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

It would strangely delight you to see with what spirit he converses. Law. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To estrange; to alienate. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. estrangier, F. étranger. See Strange. ] 1. One who is strange, foreign, or unknown. Specifically: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

(a) One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am a most poor woman and a stranger,
Born out of your dominions. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear,
And strangers to the sun yet ripen here. Granville. [ 1913 Webster ]

My child is yet a stranger in the world. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was no stranger to the original. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor. [ 1913 Webster ]

To honor and receive
Our heavenly stranger. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Strangled p. pr. & vb. n. Strangling ] [ OF. estrangler, F. étrangler, L. strangulare, Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, fr. &unr_; a halter; and perhaps akin to E. string, n. Cf. Strain, String. ] 1. To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our Saxon ancestors compelled the adulteress to strangle herself. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, . . .
And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress. “Strangle such thoughts.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be strangled, or suffocated. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being strangled. [ R. ] Chesterfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

. 1. (Wrestling) a hold by which one's opponent is choked. It is usually not allowed. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. a forceful influence that strongly inhibits freedom of action; as, the oil price jump put a stranglehold on the economy. [ PJC ]

Zona believes that Microsoft's entry into this fray breaks what has been, by all appearances, Netscape's stranglehold on the Internet. Microsoft is not licensing any technology from Netscape, and as part of this announcement, several alliances which historically would have been with Netscape were included. The impact of this announcement on Netscape was huge. [ PJC ]

SAN FRANCISCO, November 6, 1996 -- If Microsoft Corp. CEO Bill Gates were a plumber, he would control all the water in the world and force anyone who wanted some of the precious liquid to cut a deal with him.
With that statement, Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison closed a question-and-answer session with reporters and analysts held here Tuesday at Oracle OpenWorld. During his hour-long appearance, Ellison agitated in favor of low-cost, generic network computers and against Windows-based PCs.
"The notion of one company controlling the whole [computer] industry is shocking and unacceptable," Ellison said, referring to what he describes as Microsoft's stranglehold on PCs through its ubiquitous Windows operating systems. [ PJC ]

n. One who, or that which, strangles. “The very strangler of their amity.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Strangulated. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. (Med.) Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Contracted at irregular intervals, if tied with a ligature; constricted. [ 1913 Webster ]

Strangulated hernia. (Med.) See under Hernia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. strangulatio: cf. F. strangulation. See Strangle. ] 1. The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Inordinate compression or constriction of a tube or part, as of the throat; especially, such as causes a suspension of breathing, of the passage of contents, or of the circulation, as in cases of hernia. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. stranguriosus. ] (Med.) Of or pertaining to strangury. Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. stranguria, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_;, &unr_;, a drop + &unr_; to make water, &unr_; urine: cf. F. strangurie. See Strangle, and Urine. ] 1. (Med.) A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A swelling or other disease in a plant, occasioned by a ligature fastened tightly about it. [ 1913 Webster ]