alienate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness

   They alienated their friends when they became fanatically religious.

2. 2
   verb

   to make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated

   The boring work alienated their employees.

3. 3
   verb

   to transfer property or ownership

   On the advice of my lawyer, I alienated my farmland.

4. 4
   adj

   Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign

   O alienate from God.

5. 5
   verb

   To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted.

   The errors which […] alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart.

6. 6
   noun

   A stranger; an alien.

7. 7
   verb

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

8. 8
   verb

   To cause one to feel unable to relate.

Etymology

From Middle English alienat(e) (“deranged; uncertain; sequestred, secluded”), from Latin aliēnātus, perfect passive participle of aliēnō (“to estrange, alienate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from aliēnus. by surface analysis, alien + -ate. See alien, and compare aliene.