Definitions for alienate

alienate al·ien·ate

Spelling: [eyl-yuh-neyt, ey-lee-uh-]
IPA: /ˈeɪl yəˌneɪt, ˈeɪ li ə-/

Alienate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 220 anagrams from letters in alienate (aaeeilnt).

Definitions for alienate

verb (used with object)

  1. to make indifferent or hostile:
  2. to cause to be withdrawn or isolated from the objective world:
  3. to turn away; transfer or divert:
  4. Law. to transfer or convey, as title, property, or other right, to another:

Origin of alienate

1400-50; late Middle English Latin aliēnātus (past participle of aliēnāre), equivalent to aliēn(us) alien + -ātus -at

Examples for alienate

His mother alone could alienate the property, and he doubted whether she would.

Positioning yourself against President Obama is a good way to alienate the most important constituency in the Democratic Party.

Had anything occurred that was likely to alienate her from her family?

Every effort was made to alienate her from her French relations.

Do the Republicans want to alienate important constituencies they will need in 2016?

Further violence and escalation of the events into a civil war would only alienate him from the bulk of the Ukrainian people.

He lampooned the Prince Regent; yet he could not alienate the Tories.

That may work spectacularly well, or it may alienate some users.

The President did not want to alienate Southern legislators whose votes he needed on his New Deal legislation.

Great efforts were then made to alienate Henry from his faithful minister.

Word Value for alienate
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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