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Alienate

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estrangeverb(transitive) To cause to feel less close or friendly; alienate. To cease contact with (particularly of a family member or spouse, especially in form estranged).
disaffectverb(transitive) To cause a loss of affection, sympathy or loyalty in; to alienate or estrange.
aliennounA citizen or national of another sovereign state.

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estrangeverb(transitive) To cause to feel less close or friendly; alienate. To cease contact with (particularly of a family member or spouse, especially in form estranged).
disaffectverb(transitive) To cause a loss of affection, sympathy or loyalty in; to alienate or estrange.
alienverb(transitive) To estrange; to alienate.
isolateverb(transitive) To set apart or cut off from others.
disposeverb(intransitive, with of) To eliminate or to get rid of something.
removeverb(transitive) To delete.
distanceverb(transitive) Often followed by from: to set (someone or something) at a distance (noun noun, sense 1.1) from someone or something else.
alienigenate(obsolete, rare) foreign-born
estrangingnounThat estranges; alienating, disorienting.
abstractnounAn abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
disloigned(obsolete) Set off, at a distance; remote.
abstractedInattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind; meditative.
distractverb(transitive) To divert the attention of.
semoted(obsolete) separated; removed; remote
outcastnounOne that has been excluded from a society or a system, a pariah, a leper.
detachtnounObsolete form of detached. [Not physically attached; separated from something to which it could connect.]
avertedverbTurned away, especially as an expression of feeling.
relegateverbConsign (a person or thing) to a place, position, or role of obscurity, insignificance, oblivion, lower rank or (especially) inferiority.
abjected(obsolete) That has been cast off or rejected.
derogateverb(transitive) To detract from (something); to disparage, belittle.

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