estranged;
estranging
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: to arouse especially mutual enmity or indifference in (someone) where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness : alienate - John's excesses gradually estranged him from his mother …
- —Philip Norman
- She became estranged from her family.
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: to remove from customary environment or associations - The first words spoken were not those of one becoming estranged from this world, and already permitted to stray at times into realms foreign to the living.
- —Charlotte Brontë
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estrangement
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\i-ˈstrānj-mənt\
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her estrangement from her family
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estranger
noun