alienated Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. verb arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
   alien; disaffect; alienate; estrange.
   
   • She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious
2. verb transfer property or ownership
   alien; alienate.
   
   • The will aliened the property to the heirs
3. verb make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated
   alienate.
   
   • the boring work alienated his employees
4. adjective satellite socially disoriented
   disoriented; anomic.
   
   • anomic loners musing over their fate
   • we live in an age of rootless alienated people
5. adjective satellite caused to be unloved
   estranged.
   

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