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say it: AY-lyuh-nayt
alienate is a verb meaning "arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness". It is pronounced /ˈeɪljəˌneɪt/ — AY-lyuh-nayt. It carries 3 recorded senses.
arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
“She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious”
transfer property or ownership
“The will aliened the property to the heirs”
make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated
“the boring work alienated his employees”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for alienate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.