OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 11300

alienate

/ˈeɪ.li.ə.neɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
alienar • enajenar
To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
alienar • enajenar
To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted.
The errors which […] alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart.
The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present.