alienate

Plural: alienates

Verb

Verb Forms: alienated, alienating, alienates

• To cause someone to become unfriendly or indifferent.
• arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
  • "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious"
• transfer property or ownership
• make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated
  • "the boring work alienated his employees"
• 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.
• To cause one to feel unable to relate.

Adj

• Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign

Noun

• A stranger; an alien.

Examples

• His constant use of obscure two-letter words began to alienate his Words with Friends opponents.

Synonyms

alien, disaffect, estrange, antagonize, isolate, marginalize

Antonyms

accept, befriend

Anagrams of alienate