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Estranging

Definition: Estranging

Estranging

Adjective

1. Making one feel out of place or alienated; "the landscape was estranging".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Date "estranging" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Crosswords: Estranging

Etymologies containing "estranging": Estrange. (references)

Commercial Usage: Estranging

Domain	Title
Books	Cannibals, Witches, and Divorce: Estranging the Renaissance (Selected Papers from the English Institute, New Series, No 11) (reference) Estranging Dawn: The Life and Works of William Vaughn Moody, (reference) Estranging the Familiar: Toward a Revitalized Critical Writing (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translations: Estranging

Language		Translations for "estranging"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		疏远 (Alienate, Alienated, Alienating, Alienation, Distanced, Distancing, Estrange, Estranged). (various references)

German		entfremdend (alienating). (various references)

Pig Latin		estrangingay

Russian		отчуждать отчуждение. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Estranging

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-i-n-n-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: agentings, gannister, intergang, restaging.
	-2 letters: agenting, aginners, angering, angriest, antigens, astringe, earnings, engrains, enraging, entrains, gangster, ganister, gantries, gearings, gentians, granites, grannies, granting, gratings, greasing, ingrates, naggiest, negating, rangiest, snaggier, staggier, stanging.
	-3 letters: ageings, aginner, aigrets, anestri, anteing, antigen, antings, antsier, argents, earings, earning, easting, eatings, engrain, entrain, erasing, gagster, gainers, gaiters, gangers.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-g-i-n-n-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: strangering.
	+2 letters: ingatherings.
	+3 letters: congregations, straightening, transgressing.
	+4 letters: aggiornamentos, antiaggression, disintegrating, nonsegregation, predesignating.
	+5 letters: aggrandizements, antisegregation, nonsegregations, photoengravings, reinvestigating.
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Alternative Orthography: Estranging

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 73 74 72 61 6E 67 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

. ... - .-. .- -. --. .. -. --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01110011 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#115 &#116 &#114 &#97 &#110 &#103 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0073 0074 0072 0061 006E 0067 0069 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39858684678073758073

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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