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Alienated vs Alienates - What's the difference?

alienated | alienates |

As verbs the difference between alienated and alienates

is that alienated is past tense of alienate while alienates is third-person singular of alienate.

As an adjective alienated

is isolated; excluded; estranged.

alienated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Isolated; excluded; estranged.

    • Derived terms

    * alienatedly

    Verb

    (head)
  • (alienate)

    • alienates

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (alienate)

    • alienate

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from .
    • O alienate from God''. (John Milton). ''Paradise Lost line 4643.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A stranger; an alien.

    • Verb

    (alienat)
  • 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):
    • The errors which alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart.
  • * (rfdate) (Isaac Taylor):
    • 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, isolate

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