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   Alienate (-āt), 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.
   
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   2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from.
   
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   The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. Macaulay.
   
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   The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. I. Taylor.
   
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   alienated adj.
   1. 1  socially disoriented.  we live in an age of rootless alienated people
   
   Syn. -- anomic, disoriented
   
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   2. having become indifferent or hostile to one's peers or social group.
   
   Syn. -- estranged
   
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