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alienate (verb), alienates; alienated; alienating
1. To arouse hostility or indifference where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness: After Mr. Black had won a million dollars in the lottery, he made new friends, and the ones he had had were slowly alienated from his social group.
2. To cause someone to change his or her previously friendly or supportive attitude and to become unfriendly, unsympathetic, or hostile: The disagreement between the two girls who lived together alienated their warm sociability with each other.
3. To make someone feel that he or she does not belong to or is not allowed to share in something, or is isolated from it: People with a meagre amount of income often feel alienated from society.
4. To cause something, especially someone's affections, to be directed toward somebody or something else: Susan was very upset with her boyfriend's rude behaviour towards her, which alienated, or induced, her to move out of their apartment and find a new one for herself.
5. To transfer property, or a legal right, to the ownership of another person, especially by an act of the owner rather than by inheritance: Gregory, the landlord of the condo, decided to alienate his home to his wife before he got too old so that she would be the titleholder of it.
To be unfriendly and hostile.
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