ALIENATE


Meaning of ALIENATE in English

(~s, alienating, ~d)

1.

If you ~ someone, you make them become unfriendly or unsympathetic towards you.

The government cannot afford to ~ either group.

VERB: V n

2.

To ~ a person from someone or something that they are normally linked with means to cause them to be emotionally or intellectually separated from them.

His second wife, Alice, was determined to ~ him from his two boys.

VERB: V n from n

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