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bestranged

bestranged adjective: made strange, foreign, or alien; estranged. Also the simple past and past participle of bestrange.

Adjective

bestranged (comparative more bestranged, superlative most bestranged)

  1. Made strange, foreign, or alien; estranged.
    • At the same time, this infraction is what makes a 'bestranged' piece of literature interesting.2009, J.L. Mey, Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics - Page 776

Also used as

bestranged is also the simple past and past participle of bestrange.

Forms of bestranged

comparativemore bestranged
superlativemost bestranged

Origin of bestranged

From bestrange + -ed. Compare estranged.

Questions about bestranged

What does bestranged mean?
Bestranged means made strange, foreign, or alien; estranged.
What part of speech is bestranged?
Bestranged is an adjective.

Words near bestranged in the dictionary

  1. bestraddle
  2. bestraddled
  3. bestraddles
  4. bestraddling
  5. bestrange
  6. bestranged
  7. bestrangement
  8. bestranges
  9. bestranging
  10. bestraught
  11. bestraughted

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