Alienate: Definition and part of speech

Alienate

  1. a. Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; — with from.
  2. v. t. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
  3. v. t. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; — with from.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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