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[ verb ] arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness

Used in print

(Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)

Can we continue to alienate precisely those whose gifts we so desperately need and apart from whose co-operation our mission in the world must become increasingly precarious ?

(Max F. Millikan and Donald L. M. Blackmer,...)

Another great danger is that the emerging middle_class will feel itself increasingly alienated from the political_leaders who still justify their dominance by reference to the struggle for independence or the early phase of nationalism .

2
[ verb ] transfer property or ownership

Synonyms

alien

Examples

"The will aliened the property to the heirs"

Related terms

transfer

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