Alienate vs Undefined - What's the difference?
alienate | undefined |
Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from .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):
Lacking a definition or value.
(mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
As adjectives the difference between alienate and undefined
is that alienate is estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from while undefined is lacking a definition or value.As a noun alienate
is (obsolete) a stranger; an alien.As a verb alienate
is to convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.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
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English
Adjective
(wikipedia undefined) (-)- The result of division by zero is undefined .
