Usually means: Make others feel isolated, estranged.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. alienate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. alienate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alienate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alienate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. alienate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Alienate, alienate: Wordnik
  7. alienate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. alienate: Wiktionary
  9. alienate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. alienate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. alienate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. alienate: Dictionary.com
  13. alienate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. alienate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Alienate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Alienate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. alienate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. alienate: Rhymezone
  19. alienate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. alienate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. alienate: Free Dictionary
  22. alienate: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  24. alienate: Merriam-Webster.com

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  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. alienate: Legal dictionary
  6. alienate: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alienate: Encyclopedia

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  1. alienate: Medical dictionary

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  1. alienate: Idioms

(Note: See alienated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (archaic, followed by "from") Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign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.

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