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Adjective: alienated  'ey-lee-u,ney-tid
  1. Socially disoriented
    "we live in an age of rootless alienated people";
    - anomic, disoriented
     
  2. Caused to be unloved
    "She permitted her son to visit her alienated husband";
    - estranged
Verb: alienate  'ey-lee-u,neyt
  1. Arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
    "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious";
    - estrange, disaffect
     
  2. Transfer property or ownership
    "The will alienated the property to the heirs";
    - alien
     
  3. Make withdrawn, isolated or emotionally dissociated
    "the boring work alienated his employees"

See also: unloved, unoriented

Type of: affect, alter, change, impress, modify, move, strike, transfer

Encyclopedia: Alienated

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