Word.ws English Dictionary

strangering

strangering is the present participle and gerund of stranger.

Meaning of stranger

Verb

stranger (third-person singular simple present strangers, present participle strangering, simple past and past participle strangered)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To estrange; to alienate.
    • Dowered with our curse, and strangered with our oathc. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

See all 10 meanings of stranger

Questions about strangering

What is strangering the present participle and gerund of?
Strangering is the present participle and gerund of stranger.

Words near strangering in the dictionary

  1. strangerdom
  2. strangered
  3. strangeress
  4. strangeresses
  5. strangerhood
  6. strangering
  7. strangerlike
  8. strangerly
  9. strangers
  10. strangers in the night
  11. strangership

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: strangering (page history and authors); stranger (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “strangering.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/strangering. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.