About The Word Alienate
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Alienate
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What's The Definition Of Alienate?
[v] arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
Synonyms | Synonyms for Alienate: alien | disaffect | estrange Related Terms | Find terms related to Alienate: abalienate | abrupt | alter | amortize | antagonize | assign | barter | bequeath | brainwash | cast off | cast out | cede | change | come between | confer | consign | convert | convey | corrupt | counterindoctrinate | cut adrift | cut off | cut out | deed | deed over | delete | deliver | demise | depart | devolve upon | disaffect | disarticulate | disconnect | disengage | disjoin | disjoint | dissociate | disunify | disunite | divide | divorce | eject | embitter | enfeoff | envenom | estrange | exacerbate | exchange | expel | fan the flame | give | give title to | give up | hand | hand down | hand on | hand over | heat up | indoctrinate | infuriate | irritate | isolate | leave | light the fuse | madden | make over | make trouble | negotiate | part | pass | pass on | pass over | pit against | provoke | pull away | pull back | pull out | reindoctrinate | relinquish | remise | segregate | sell | separate | sequester | set against | set apart | set aside | set at odds | set at variance | set on | settle | settle on | shut off | sic on | sign away | sign over | sow dissension | split | stand aloof | stand apart | stand aside | step aside | stir up trouble | subtract | subvert | surrender | throw off | throw out | trade | transfer | transmit | turn over | uncouple | unyoke | wean | win away | withdraw See Also | alter | change | drift apart | drift away | wean Alienate In Webster's Dictionary \Al"ien*ate\ ([=a]l"yen*[asl]t), a. [L. alienatus, p.
p. of alienare, fr. alienus. See {Alien}, and cf. {Aliene}.]
Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.
O alienate from God. --Milton.
\Al"ien*ate\ (-[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Alienated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Alienating}.] 1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of. 2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from. The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. --Macaulay. The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. --I. Taylor. \Al"ien*ate\, n. A stranger; an alien. [Obs.] |
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