estranging

1. 1.

   making one feel out of place or alienated

   “the landscape was estranging”

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Questions about estranging

What does estranging mean?

estranging means "making one feel out of place or alienated".

How many syllables are in estranging?

estranging has 3 syllables and divides as e-stran-ging under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is estranging a common word?

estranging is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.