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/ˈeɪljənˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Alienate v. t. (past & past part. alienated; pres. part. alienating)

To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.

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." "The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present."

noun

Alienate n. A stranger; an alien. (Obs.)

adjective

Alienate adj. Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from. "O alienate from God."

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Etymology of 'Alienate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Alienate" Quotes from Famous Books

... What could she say that would not at once alienate this foreign cousin, who seemed now inclined to friendliness with her? And yet she could not let poor Peggy go undefended. At last she said gently, yet with meaning, "Dear Rita, you make me tremble for myself. If ...

— Three Margarets • Laura E. Richards

... the rank of Constantinople were confirmed; the rank of a see was declared to follow the civil rank of its city; unenthroned bishops were guaranteed against diminution of their rights; metropolitans were forbidden to alienate the property of ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 - "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" • Various

... his discharge from the hospital in France Payson had always been cool, weary, abstracted, difficult to reach. And here at the last he grew strangely aloof and stubborn. Every word that bore relation to his own welfare seemed only to alienate him the more. ...

— The Day of the Beast • Zane Grey

... deprives me of sleep and appetite. M. Burney thinks there is a case like it in Chapt. 170, sect. 5, in Fearne's Contingent Remainders. Pray read it over with him dispassionately, and let me have the result. The complexity lies in the questionable power of the husband to alienate.... ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 6) - Letters 1821-1842 • Charles and Mary Lamb

... the course that his circumstances urged, he would soon have crystallized into a narrow, subservient character, without purpose or ideals. By all the standards of his time, he would be thought to be throwing away his life if he should take steps to alienate himself from the glittering, laughing, sympathetic friends who stood about him at court. All advancement for him appeared to be in line with the influences there. But if he had done this, if he had followed the star of court preferment, he would have remained only one of many highly polished nonentities—and ...

— Lafayette • Martha Foote Crow

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