alienate

alienate
    v 1: 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}]
    2: transfer property or ownership; "The will aliened the
       property to the heirs" [syn: {alien}, {alienate}]
    3: make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated; "the
       boring work alienated his employees"
    

Alienate \Al"ien*ate\, n.
   A stranger; an alien. [Obs.]
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Alienate \Al"ien*ate\ ([=a]l"yen*[asl]t), a. [L. alienatus, p.
   p. of alienare, fr. alienus. See {Alien}, and cf. {Aliene}.]
   Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.
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         O alienate from God.                     --Milton.
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Alienate \Al"ien*ate\ (-[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Alienated};
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Alienating}.]
   1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or
      right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
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   2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of
      averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to
      estrange; to wean; -- with from.
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            The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and
            priesthood from the House of Stuart.  --Macaulay.
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            The recollection of his former life is a dream that
            only the more alienates him from the realities of
            the present.                          --I. Taylor.
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ALIENATE, aliene, alien. This is a generic term applicable to the various
methods of transferring property from one person to another. Lord Coke, says,

(1 Inst. 118 b,) alien cometh of the verb alienate, that is, alienum facere
vel ex nostro dominio in alienum trawferre sive rem aliquam in dominium
alterius transferre. These methods vary, according to the nature of the
property to be conveyed and the particular objects the conveyance is
designed to accomplish. It has been held, that under a prohibition to
alienate, long leases are comprehended. 2 Dow's Rep. 210.
    

117 Moby Thesaurus words for "alienate":
      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