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Definition of Alienate
1. Verb. Arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness. "The performance is likely to alienate Sue"; "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Specialized synonyms: Drift Apart, Drift Away, Wean
Derivative terms: Alienator, Disaffection, Estrangement
2. Verb. Transfer property or ownership. "The will aliened the property to the heirs"
3. Verb. Make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated. "The boring work alienated his employees"
Definition of Alienate
1. a. Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.
2. v. t. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
3. n. A stranger; an alien.
Definition of Alienate
1. Adjective. Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with ''from''. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) A stranger; an alien. ¹
3. Verb. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of. ¹
4. Verb. To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to wean. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alienate
1. to make indifferent or unfriendly [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alienate
Literary usage of Alienate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Law by John Westlake (1910)
"Such are the agreements which China made in 1898 with Great Britain, that she "
will never alienate any territory in the provinces adjoining the Yang-tsze ..."
2. The Modern Law of Real Property: With an Introduction for the Student and an by Louis Arthur Goodeve (1883)
"The administrator, however, has full power to alienate the property, ... Power to
alienate. Infanta. Hitherto we have spoken of the alienability of lands ..."
3. The Law of Nations, Or, Principles of the Law of Nature Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1867)
"Th» possession, may dispose of it as she thinks proper, and may nation may lawfully
alienate or mortgage it. This right is a necessary ..."
4. The Law of Nations: Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty (1883)
"Th» possession, may dispose of it as she thinks proper, and may nation m»y lawfully
alienate or mortgage it. This right is a necessary all«nate lta • .1 e ..."
5. History of the College of St. John the Evangelist, Cambridge by Thomas Baker (1869)
"... farm Cambridge to alienate one close to Hen. Hodson brewer for 19 years, f.
517 b. 342. 2 Mar. 9 Eliz. Lease to Tho. Pares of Chesterton yeoman, ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Domestic Relations: Embracing Husband and Wife by James Schouler, Arthur Walker Blakemore (1921)
"Husband's Power to alienate Fee. The husband alone has power at common law to
bind or alienate the wife's lands during coverture. ..."
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