What is "estranging"

Estrange \Es*trange"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Estranged; p. pr. & vb. n. Estranging.] [OF. estrangier to remove, F. ['e]tranger, L. extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See Strange.]

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

   We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and distinctly evidenced.
   --Glanvill.

   Had we . . . estranged ourselves from them in things indifferent.
   --Hooker.

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

   They . . . have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods.
   --Jer. xix. 4.

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

   I do not know, to this hour, what it is that has estranged him from me.
   --Pope.

   He . . . had pretended to be estranged from the Whigs, and had promised to act as a spy upon them.
   --Macaulay.

vb. (present participle of estrange English)

adj. making one feel out of place or alienated; "the landscape was estranging"