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alienate
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noun
  1. (obsolete) A stranger; an alien.
verb (alienat, ing)
  1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
  2. To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to wean; with from.
The errors which... alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. -Macaulay.
The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. -I. Taylor.
Translations:
  • Dutch: vervreemden
  • French: aliéner
  • German: entfremden
  • Italian: alienare
  • Spanish: alienar
adjective
  1. estranged, Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from.
O from God. w:John Milton, John Milton. Paradise Lost line 4643.
Etymology: alienatus, past participle of alienare, from alienus. See alien, and confer aliene.

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