Usually means: Causes someone to feel isolated.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. alienates: Merriam-Webster
  2. alienates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. alienates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Alienates, alienates: Wordnik
  5. alienates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. alienates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  7. alienates: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. alienates: Wiktionary
  9. alienates: Dictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. alienates: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. alienates: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alienates: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See alienate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (alienate)

adjective:  (archaic, followed by "from") Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign
noun:  (obsolete) A stranger; an alien.
verb:  To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
verb:  To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted.
verb:  To cause one to feel unable to relate.
▸ Also see alienate


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