Definition of alienate (verb) - to estrange; to isolate; to requisition; to confiscate

Alienated; Alienated; Alienating

Example sentences with this word:

• Widespread surveillance threatens to alienate the public.
• Following his ejection from Kidderminster, the Bishop, the deans and many of the curates had preached long and bitter sermons against Richard Baxter to alienate the people from him.

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