verb [VN]
1 to make sb less friendly or sympathetic towards you:
His comments have alienated a lot of young voters.
2 ~ sb (from sth/sb) to make sb feel that they do not belong in a particular group:
Very talented children may feel alienated from the others in their class.
alienation noun [U]:
The new policy resulted in the alienation of many voters. * Many immigrants suffer from a sense of alienation.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for alienate is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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