estranging
/ɪˈstreɪndʒɪŋ/
adjective
- Causing someone to feel less close or friendly toward another person; alienating.
- Her estranging behavior made it hard for her to keep close relationships.
- The long hours at work created an estranging distance between the couple.
- His constant criticism had an estranging effect on his friends.
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verb
- Present participle of estrange: causing someone to become less friendly or intimate; alienating.
- The argument is slowly estranging the two former best friends.
- He is estranging himself from his family by refusing to talk to them.
- By moving abroad and rarely calling, she is estranging her childhood friends.