estrange, alienate, disaffect
(verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness; “She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious”
alienate
(verb) make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated; “the boring work alienated his employees”
alien, alienate
(verb) transfer property or ownership; “The will aliened the property to the heirs”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
alienate (not comparable)
(archaic, followed by "from") Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign
alienate (plural alienates)
(obsolete) A stranger; an alien.
alienate (third-person singular simple present alienates, present participle alienating, simple past and past participle alienated)
To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted.
Alienate is largely synonymous with estrange. However, alienate is used primarily to refer to driving off (“he alienated her with his atrocious behavior”) or to offend a group (“the imprudent remarks alienated the urban demographic”), while estrange is used rather to mean “cut off relations”, particularly in a family setting.
• (estrange): estrange, antagonize, isolate, marginalize
• (estrange): accept
Source: Wiktionary
Al"ien*ate, a. Etym: [L. alienatus, p. p. of alienare, fr. alienus. See Alien, and cf. Aliene.]
Definition: Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from. O alienate from God. Milton.
Al"ien*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alienated; p. pr. & vb. n. Alienating.]
1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
2. 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. Macaulay. The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. I. Taylor.
Al"ien*ate, n.
Definition: A stranger; an alien. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 June 2025
(noun) (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business; “he is the owner of a chain of restaurants”
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