alienate

Meanings

Adjective

• Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign

Noun

• A stranger; an alien.

Verb

• To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
• To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted.

Related

Similar words

• estrange, antagonize, isolate, marginalize

Opposite words

• accept

Origin

• From Middle English alienat, from Latin aliēnātus, perfect passive participle of aliēnō, from aliēnus. See alien, and confer aliene.