estranging

verb

present participle of estrange
as in alienating
to cause to change from friendly or loving to unfriendly or uncaring she estranged several of her coworkers when she let her promotion go to her head

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Recent Examples of estranging So, how can an organization remain current on customers' ever-changing needs and expectations without annoying or estranging them? — Chip Bell, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for estranging
  1. alienating
  2. angering
  3. infuriating
  4. outraging
  5. enraging
  6. souring
  7. severing
Verb
  • Miller must now help an administration preserve its core supporters without further alienating voters concerned about prices, community disruption and overseas conflict.
    — Sam Stevenson, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2026
  • When over half of shoppers intentionally provide proxy emails or fake numbers to avoid spam and data exposure, brands end up building marketing strategies on flawed, unresponsive databases while alienating distrustful consumers.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of alienating
Verb
  • Data center demand began driving up electric bills last year across a 13-state electricity grid stretching from Illinois to New Jersey and Maryland, angering ratepayers.
    — Marc Levy, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Indeed, the survey showed that use of the horn is the most common action when drivers consider another driver to be annoying or angering them.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of angering
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  • The podcaster Candace Owens drove those theories, infuriating her former employer, Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro.
    — Max Tani, semafor.com, 2 Nov. 2026
  • With its gridlocked terminals, infuriating delays and long lines for everything from security checks to coffee, LAX might be where patience goes to die.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of infuriating
Verb
  • Its construction required detonating explosives in the national monument, blasting apart an area called Monument Hill and outraging tribal leaders.
    — Ryan Devereaux, ProPublica, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The Hitlerite hordes are murdering and outraging the peaceful inhabitants of our country, having no mercy on women, children or old people.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of outraging
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  • This book is built from Norris’s Race Card Project, where people distill their experience of race into six words, resulting in an archive of experiences that are heartbreaking, enraging, but also at times hopeful.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Nov. 2026
  • However, the company gave no notice to local astronomers, further enraging them.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of enraging
Verb
  • The Turkish and Azerbaijani presidents reaffirmed their countries’ close ties Sunday in response to growing speculation of souring relations.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2026
  • At the same time, public sentiment around AI has been souring.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of souring
Verb
  • The move comes as Bessent has spent the last several months executing a massive economic campaign against Iran aimed at severing all of Tehran’s remaining financial ties around the world.
    — Farnoush Amiri, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2026
  • His iconic chest symbol even doubles as a detachable axe for severing limbs.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of severing

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“Estranging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/estranging. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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