alienate

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Adjective 1.4 Noun 1.5 Verb 1.5.1 Synonyms 1.5.2 Translations 1.6 References 2 Italian 2.1 Adjective 2.2 Noun 2.3 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Latin alienatus, past participle of alienare, from alienus. See alien, and confer aliene.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈeɪ.li.ə.neɪt/, SAMPA: /"eI.li.@.neIt/

[edit] Adjective

alienate (not comparable)

1. Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from.

   O alienate from God. John Milton. Paradise Lost line 4643.

[edit] Noun

alienate (plural alienates)

1. (obsolete) A stranger; an alien.

[edit] Verb

to alienate (third-person singular simple present alienates, present participle alienating, simple past and past participle alienated)

1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
2. 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.

[edit] Synonyms

• estrange
• antagonize
• isolate

[edit] Translations

[edit] References

• alienate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Adjective

alienate pl.

1. Feminine form of alienato.

[edit] Noun

alienate f.

1. Plural form of alienata.

[edit] Verb

alienate

1. second-person plural present tense of alienare
2. second-person plural imperative of alienare
3. feminine plural past participle of alienare