Origin: Latin
suffix -ate
Alienate has 6 different meanings across 1 category:
Verb
Noun
Verb
1
arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
"She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious"
2
transfer property or ownership
"The will aliened the property to the heirs"
3
make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated
"the boring work alienated his employees"
4
To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
Adjective
1
Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign
Example Sentences
"She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious"
verb
"The will aliened the property to the heirs"
verb
"the boring work alienated his employees"
verb
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