estranging
- adjective
- /ɪˈstreɪndʒɪŋ/
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alienante
- After moving to a new city, she found the culture to be estranging, making it hard to connect with the locals.
We're in a certain sense estranged from absolute duty.
- We're in a certain sense estranged from absolute duty.
- And they wind up, although able to exercise power just as you know, estranged, as alienated as everyone else.
- If I don't see my son for a day, I feel estranged, I feel abandoned, so I can imagine what it would be like for a few years.
Examples
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Although she never speaks about her early school experience, we know that as early as 1875, a concerted movement was implemented to assimilate the woodland tribes through a formal and estranging education based on Western civilization.
Academic text (1997) -
The story doesn't stay strange and estranging, the way aliens feel, the way divorce works, the way a story has to stay to be worth a second look.
Fiction book (1996) -
We're in a certain sense estranged from absolute duty.
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And they wind up, although able to exercise power just as you know, estranged, as alienated as everyone else.
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If I don't see my son for a day, I feel estranged, I feel abandoned, so I can imagine what it would be like for a few years.
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This modern light is piteous shearing and estranging clarity, lest each one shipwreck on one's self.
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It looks like we're going to be able to interview Riff Raff, who is a kind of an estranged human performer, one-of-a-kind, be able to interview him.
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His constant criticism left her feeling estranging and distant from her friends.
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Many immigrants experience estranging feelings as they adapt to a new country and its customs.
Synonyms
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4.2
To keep someone or something apart from others
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6.7
To make someone feel alone and lose support from others
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3.2
To stop other people from getting close to you emotionally
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5.6
Act in a way that makes other people avoid you
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7.5
Make someone feel distant from family or friends
Causing someone to feel alone and not part of a group
Antonyms
How Alienating
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Estranging comes from a root meaning 'outside' and is related to the words extra and strange. So something that is estranging makes a person feel 'outside' or 'out of place'.