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Al·ien·ate 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.
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]