alienate
About 0.95 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign
- noun A stranger; an alien.
- verb To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
- verb To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted.
- verb To cause one to feel unable to relate.
Similar words
estrange disaffect alien isolate dispose remove distance alienigenate estranging abstract
Often followed by
the them his their him any a it or her
Word family
alienated alienates alienating alienator alienators
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