alienate
verb (used with object)
to make indifferent or hostile.
was alienating
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past progressiveof alienate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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But it was a fascinating experience too, enveloping in its own way even as it was alienating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
Instead of engaging and supporting him at that difficult moment, school was alienating.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
At the department’s Frances Perkins Building in downtown Washington, Acosta was alienating some of his top political appointees with his inaction, and some of them started to trickle out of the administration.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2019
Laura Grantham, 48, an engineering recruiter at the file-hosting service Dropbox, said that she was a fan of the senator but that the message was alienating.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2019
Though Fischer was alienating some people, such as Jack and Ethel Collins, who’d been virtual grandparents to him, he did remain close to his mother, as their ongoing correspondence at the time indicates.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
