alienate

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/ˈeɪ.li.ə.neɪt/ English

Definitions

noun

A stranger; an alien.

verb

To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted.

adjective

(followed by "from") Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign

Related words

Synonyms

antagonize estrange isolate marginalize disaffect alien dispose remove distance alienigenate estranging abstract disloigned abstracted distract semoted outcast detacht

Antonyms

Associated

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Rhymes

elucidate articulate desolate facilitate profligate explicate deliberate delineate ruminate innate

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