Alienating

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Alienate \Al"ien*ate\ (-[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Alienated};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Alienating}.]
     1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or
        right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
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     2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of
        averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to
        estrange; to wean; -- with from.
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              The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and
              priesthood from the House of Stuart.  --Macaulay.
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              The recollection of his former life is a dream that
              only the more alienates him from the realities of
              the present.                          --I. Taylor.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  alienating
       adj : causing hostility or loss of friendliness; "her sudden
             alienating aloofness"