Alienate vs Alienated - What's the difference?
alienate | alienated |
Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from .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.
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As adjectives the difference between alienate and alienated
is that alienate is estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from while alienated is isolated; excluded; estranged.As verbs the difference between alienate and alienated
is that alienate is to convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of while alienated is (alienate).As a noun alienate
is (obsolete) 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.