Alienate

Quick meaning: Alienate is an adjective meaning To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.

Meaning

To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.

More Meanings

1. To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted.
2. To cause one to feel unable to relate.
3. (archaic, followed by "from") Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign
4. (obsolete) A stranger; an alien.

Example Sentences

O alienate from God.

The errors which […] alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart.

The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present.

The Communists had considerable influence in the Labour Party in the years 1920–26 and 1935–9. Their chief importance, and that of the whole left wing of the Labour movement, was the part they played in alienating the middle classes from Socialism.

Word Forms

• alienates
• alienating
• alienated

Synonyms for alienate

Depending on context, synonyms include estrange, antagonize, isolate, marginalize, disaffect, alien.

Antonyms for alienate

Common opposites include accept, befriend.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include estrange, disaffect, alien, isolate, dispose, remove.

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