estrange
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- v remove from customary environment or associations
years of boarding school estranged the child from her home - v arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
- In the process they seduced politicians capable of better character (like Rick Santorum) into compromising situations that estrange them from their true political kin.
- The ex-Premier has said no word to estrange the press trusts under his friends, Lords Gatherem and Botherem.
- EVEN as it widened the war in Southeast Asia, the Nixon Administration chose to further estrange itself from the nation's campuses.