ALIENATE


Meaning of ALIENATE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ eɪliəneɪt ]

( alienates, alienating, alienated)

1.

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

The government cannot afford to alienate either group.

VERB : V n

2.

To alienate 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 alienate him from his two boys.

VERB : V n from n

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