estrange

/ɛstɹˈe‍ɪnd‍ʒ/

/ɛˈstɹeɪndʒ/

[verb]

to estrange

[VERB]

MAIN VERB

arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness

synonyms : alienate

disaffect

remove from customary environment or associations

Examples

1. He estranged the common people, the Senate and the Praetorian Guard.

2. Todd's oldest son, Kyle Chrisley, was once famously estranged from the entire clan.

3. These processes have estranged Lisu from the traditional ritual practices which they call practices of the earlier days.

4. You've got to estrange your own culture in the same way you're estranging other people's cultures and begin again from equal understandings of the strangeness of all of these achievements.