alienate
alienate is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
- 2.To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from. The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. Macaulay. The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. I. Taylor.
- 3.A stranger; an alien. [Obs.]
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abalienate
- abalienation
- acquire
- against
- alien
- alienable
- alienation
- and
- animosity
- another
- arms
- assign
- assignment
- bad
- bargain
- barter
- bear
- bitterness
- but
- change
- cold
- come
- coming
- confer
- consign
- convey
- conveyance
- conveyancing
- cool
- demise
- devolution
- devolve
- disaffected
- discord
- disinherit
- dislike
- dispossess
- down
- drawn
- enfeoffment
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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