estrangeverb [ T ]
/ɪˈstreɪndʒ//ɪˈstreɪndʒ/formalto cause someone to no longer have a friendly relationship with another person or other people:
Her lifestyle estranged her from her parents.
to cause you to feel that you do not understand someone or something, or do not have any connection with him, her, or it:
Cultural changes can estrange the reader from old texts.
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Not being friendly
- (at) daggers drawn idiom
- abrasive
- aloof
- antisocial
- asocial
- austere
- estranged
- forbidding
- frostily
- give sb the time of day idiom
- hostile
- impersonal
- mixer
- saturnine
- sour
- unwelcoming
- wintry
- with friends like you, who needs enemies? idiom
- withdraw
- withdrawal
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