## Meanings
1. To make someone stop being friendly or supportive towards you.
2. To make someone feel that they do not belong or cannot relate to others.

## Examples
- His rude comments alienated many of his closest friends.
- The new policy alienated younger members of the club.

## Antonyms
- accept
- befriend

## Derived Forms
- abalienate
- realienate
- unalienate

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: alienat
- Root: aliēnātus

## 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.

## AI Etymology
Alienate is 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. In present-day use, it can mean to make someone stop being friendly or supportive towards you, or to make someone feel that they do not belong or cannot relate to others. Derived formations include abalienate, realienate, unalienate.

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