ALIENATE (2)

alienate (2). Alienate, a. withdrawn from, strange to, averse

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Al″ien‐ate (–āt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alienated (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Alienating.] 1. 1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
2. 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.