'alienate' definitions:
Definition of 'alienate'
(from WordNet)
verb
Arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness; "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious" [syn: estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect]
verb
Transfer property or ownership; "The will aliened the property to the heirs" [syn: alien, alienate]
verb
Make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated; "the boring work alienated his employees"
Synonyms of 'alienate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abalienate,
- abrupt,
- alter,
- amortize,
- antagonize,
- assign,
- barter,
- bequeath,
- brainwash,
- cast off,
- cast out,
- cede,
- change,
- come between,
- confer,
- consign,
- convert,
- convey,
- corrupt,
- counterindoctrinate,
- cut adrift,
- cut off,
- cut out,
- deed,
- deed over,
- delete,
- deliver,
- demise,
- depart,
- devolve upon,
- disaffect,
- disarticulate,
- disconnect,
- disengage,
- disjoin,
- disjoint,
- dissociate,
- disunify,
- disunite,
- divide,
- divorce,
- eject,
- embitter,
- enfeoff,
- envenom,
- estrange,
- exacerbate,
- exchange,
- expel,
- fan the flame,
- give,
- give title to,
- give up,
- hand,
- hand down,
- hand on,
- hand over,
- heat up,
- indoctrinate,
- infuriate,
- irritate,
- isolate,
- leave,
- light the fuse,
- madden,
- make over,
- make trouble,
- negotiate,
- part,
- pass,
- pass on,
- pass over,
- pit against,
- provoke,
- pull away,
- pull back,
- pull out,
- reindoctrinate,
- relinquish,
- remise,
- segregate,
- sell,
- separate,
- sequester,
- set against,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- set at odds,
- set at variance,
- set on,
- settle,
- settle on,
- shut off,
- sic on,
- sign away,
- sign over,
- sow dissension,
- split,
- stand aloof,
- stand apart,
- stand aside,
- step aside,
- stir up trouble,
- subtract,
- subvert,
- surrender,
- throw off,
- throw out,
- trade,
- transfer,
- transmit,
- turn over,
- uncouple,
- unyoke,
- wean,
- win away,
- withdraw