estrange

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To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with.

To divert from its original use or purpose, or from its former possessor; to alienate.

To alienate the affections or confidence of; to turn from attachment to enmity or indifference.

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It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them. Gilbert Parker

The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things. Charles Baudelaire

I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being. Matthew Tobin Anderson

She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious Source: Internet

years of boarding school estranged the child from her home Source: Internet

The British government's strategy was to estrange the clan chiefs from their kinsmen and turn their descendants into English-speaking landlords whose main concern was the revenues their estates brought rather than the welfare of those who lived on them. Source: Internet

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