[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 make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated;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Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.
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O alienate from God. --Milton.
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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.
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2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of
averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to
estrange; to wean; -- with from.
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The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and
priesthood from the House of Stuart. --Macaulay.
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The recollection of his former life is a dream that
only the more alienates him from the realities of
the present. --I. Taylor.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Alienate \Al"ien*ate\, n.
A stranger; an alien. [Obs.]
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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3: make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated; "the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"