alienate

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1. alienate - Noun

2. alienate - Adjective

3. alienate - Verb

Meaning

Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.

To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.

To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from.

A stranger; an alien.

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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. William Hazlitt

We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo. Vladimir Nabokov

Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;... to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects. Paulo Freire

The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished. Meles Zenawi

One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans. Boris Vian

Motown was about music for all people – white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone. Berry Gordy

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