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单词 alienate
释义

alienate

/ˈeɪlɪəneɪt /
verb [with object]
1Make (someone) feel isolated or estranged: an urban environment which would alienate its inhabitants (as adjective alienated) an alienated, angst-ridden twenty-two-year-old...
  • What we have are two things going on: One, a society in which our children are alienated and isolated.
  • No matter how much you talk about global effects or global capitalism, some people are very alienated and isolated in this world.
  • Both characters feel alienated by their environment, which leads them to plough a gentle furrow of despair.

Synonyms

estrange, turn away, set apart, drive apart, isolate, detach, distance, put at a distance;
set against, part, separate, cut off, sever, divide, divorce, disunite, set at variance/odds, make hostile to, drive a wedge between, sow dissension
1.1Make (someone) become unsympathetic or hostile: the association does not wish to alienate its members...
  • The experience will drive him away from his deaf parents and alienate him from an unsympathetic hearing world
  • Orchin's difficulty was that to make the association more attractive to members he risked alienating the patrons who subsidized its activities.
  • I choose to be loyal to my values and to alienate my team members.
2 Law Transfer ownership of (property rights) to another person or group: they defended the Masai against attempts to alienate their land...
  • Consequently, unless the plaintiff alienated his ownership, he has been the owner of the case since it came into being.
  • Ever since the 1290 statute it has been a principle of the law that generally an estate owner should have a free and unfettered power to alienate his property.
  • The ultimate purpose of the acquisitions is to enable the Territory to validly alienate Crown land in the manner that is stated in the notices of proposed acquisition.

Synonyms

transfer, convey, pass on, hand over, devolve

Phrases

alienate someone's affections

Derivatives

alienator

noun

Origin

Early 16th century: from Latin alienat- 'estranged', from the verb alienare, from alienus 'of another' (see alien).

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