Definizione monolingua

alienate

alienate (third-person singular simple present alienates, present participle alienating, simple past and past participle alienated)

1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
2. To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to wean.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Thomas Babington Macaulay:

     The errors which […] alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Isaac Taylor:

     The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present.

alienate (plural alienates)

1. (obsolete) A stranger; an alien.

alienate (not comparable)

1. Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from.

   O alienate from God. John Milton. Paradise Lost line 4643.

Definizione dizionario alienate

	alienare
	Make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated.

allontanare

estraniare

Altri significati:

To convey or transfer

To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.

Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from.

To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to wean.

(obsolete) A stranger; an alien.

To estrange

To cause to feel less close or friendly.