2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
alienated
adj 1: socially disoriented; "anomic loners musing over their
fate"; "we live in an age of rootless alienated
people" [syn: {anomic}, {disoriented}]
2: caused to be unloved [syn: {estranged}]
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