estrange
verb (used with object)
to turn away in feeling or affection; make unfriendly or hostile; alienate the affections of.
estranging
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present participleof estrange.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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By estranging me from the world, derealization, paradoxically, makes it more real.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2022
These are not cognitively estranging phenomena in the manner of cyberspace, for instance, the technical workings of which most of us simply don’t understand.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2019
She last had that estranging experience watching herself on screen when she made The Hours, channelling Virginia Woolf, and watching the world from behind a prosthetic nose.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2018
They spoke on the condition of anonymity over concerns about estranging colleagues.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2018
The destruction of that desire, or the estranging of one's self from it.
From The Buddhist Catechism by Henry Steel Olcott
