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VERB (3)

1. arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness;
- Example: "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious"
[syn: estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect]

2. transfer property or ownership;
- Example: "The will aliened the property to the heirs"
[syn: alien, alienate]

3. make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated;
- Example: "the boring work alienated his employees"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Alienate \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 Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from. [1913 Webster] O alienate from God. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Alienate \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. [1913 Webster] 2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from. [1913 Webster] The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Alienate \Al"ien*ate\, n. A stranger; an alien. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

alienate v 1: arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness; "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious" [syn: estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect] 2: transfer property or ownership; "The will aliened the property to the heirs" [syn: alien, alienate] 3: make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated; "the boring work alienated his employees"