Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
causing hostility or loss of friendliness;
- Example: "her sudden alienating aloofness"
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
alienating
adj 1: causing hostility or loss of friendliness; "her sudden
alienating aloofness"