estranged

Verb

• remove from customary environment or associations
  • "years of boarding school estranged the child from her home"
• arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
• simple past and past participle of estrange

Adjective Satellite

• caused to be unloved

Adj

• Having become a stranger, of one who formerly was close, as a relative, friend, lover, or spouse.

Examples

• She estranged her husband by not talking to him for over a year.

Synonyms

alien, alienate, alienated, disaffect, estrange

Related Words

bestranged

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