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.


 alienating
      adj : causing hostility or loss of friendliness; "her sudden
            alienating aloofness"