alienate
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Latin alienatus, past participle of alienare, from alienus. See alien, and confer aliene.
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alienate (not comparable)
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- Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from.
- O alienate from God. John Milton. Paradise Lost line 4643.
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alienate (plural alienates)
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to alienate (third-person singular simple present alienates, present participle alienating, simple past and past participle alienated)
- To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
- To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to wean; with from.
- The errors which... alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. - Thomas Babington Macaulay.
- The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present.- Isaac Taylor.
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- alienate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[edit] Italian
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alienate pl.
- Feminine form of alienato.
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alienate f.
- Plural form of alienata.
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alienate
- second-person plural present tense of alienare
- second-person plural imperative of alienare
- feminine plural past participle of alienare