Alienate vs Alleviate - What's the difference?
alienate | alleviate |
Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from .
To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to wean.
* (rfdate) (Thomas Babington Macaulay):
* (rfdate) (Isaac Taylor):
To make less severe, as a pain or difficulty.
As verbs the difference between alienate and alleviate
is that alienate is to convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of while alleviate is to make less severe, as a pain or difficulty.As an adjective alienate
is estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from.As a noun alienate
is a stranger; an alien.alienate
English
Adjective
(-)- O alienate from God''. (John Milton). ''Paradise Lost line 4643.
Verb
(alienat)- The errors which alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart.
- The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present.
Usage notes
Alienate'' is largely synonymous with estrange. However, ''alienate'' is used primarily to refer to driving off (“he ''alienated'' her with his atrocious behavior”) or to offend a group (“the imprudent remarks ''alienated'' the urban demographic”), while ''estrange is used rather to mean “cut off relations”, particularly in a family setting.Synonyms
* (estrange) estrange, antagonize, isolateReferences
* ----alleviate
English
Verb
- Alcohol is often a cheap tool to alleviate the stress of a hard day.
