Dereliction vs Alienate - What's the difference?
dereliction | alienate |
willful neglect of one's duty
the act of abandoning something, or the state of being abandoned
Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from .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 nouns the difference between dereliction and alienate
is that dereliction is willful neglect of one's duty while alienate is a stranger; an alien.As an adjective alienate is
estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from.As a verb alienate is
to convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.dereliction
English
Noun
- The new soldier did not clean his cabin and was scolded for dereliction and disobedience.
- What he did was a terrible dereliction of duty.
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.
