verb
- Arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness.
- usage: "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious"
- Transfer property or ownership.
- usage: "The will aliened the property to the heirs"
- Make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated.
- usage: "the boring work alienated his employees"
- synonyms: alienate
adjective
- Socially disoriented.
- usage: "anomic loners musing over their fate"; "we live in an age of rootless alienated people"
- synonyms: anomic, disoriented
- Caused to be unloved.
- synonyms: estranged
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