alienate

alienate is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.
2. transitive verb. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
3. transitive verb. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from.
4. noun. A stranger; an alien.
5. verb. arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness

   "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious"

   Synonyms: alien, disaffect, estrange

6. verb. make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated

   "the boring work alienated his employees"

7. verb. transfer property or ownership

   "The will aliened the property to the heirs"

   Synonyms: alien

Synonyms

alien, disaffect, estrange

Common word forms

alienated, alienates, alienating

Words from these letters

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