(~s, alienating, ~d)
1.
If you ~ someone, you make them become unfriendly or unsympathetic towards you.
The government cannot afford to ~ either group.
VERB: V n
2.
To ~ a person from someone or something that they are normally linked with means to cause them to be emotionally or intellectually separated from them.
His second wife, Alice, was determined to ~ him from his two boys.
VERB: V n from n