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Alienate
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Part of speech: noun (n.)
A stranger; an alien. [Obs.]
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from. The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. Macaulay. The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. I. Taylor.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from. O alienate from God. Milton.