From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Alienate \Al"ien*ate\ (-[=a]t), verb (used with an object) [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.
2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from.
The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. --Macaulay.
The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. --I. Taylor.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
alienated \alienated\ adjective
1. 1 socially disoriented. we live in an age of rootless alienated people
Syn: anomic, disoriented [WordNet 1.5]
2. having become indifferent or hostile to one's peers or social group.
Syn: estranged [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
alienated
adjective
1: socially disoriented; "anomic loners musing over their fate"; "we live in an age of rootless alienated people" [syn: {anomic}, {disoriented}]
2: caused to be unloved [syn: {estranged}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
66 Moby Thesaurus words for "alienated": alone, aloof, antiestablishment, apart, at odds with, at variance with, breakaway, companionless, counter-culture, detached, differing, disaffected, disagreeing, disarticulated, disconnected, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed, disjunct, dislocated, dispersed, dissentient, dissenting, dissident, disunited, divided, divorced, estranged, friendless, homeless, in opposition, insular, irreconcilable, isolated, kithless, lone, lonely, lonesome, nonconforming, opposing, recusant, removed, rootless, scattered, sectarian, sectary, segregated, separate, separated, sequestered, shut off, single-handed, solitary, solo, torn, unabetted, unaccompanied, unaided, unassisted, unattended, underground, unescorted, unseconded, unsupported, withdrawn
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