When you alienate people, you make them stop liking or caring about you. Show up at a conference of cat lovers with a sign around your neck that says, "I hate kittens," and you'll learn firsthand what that means.
To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
Verb
arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
Verb
transfer property or ownership; "The will aliened the property to the heirs"
a.
Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.
v. t.
To convey or transfer to another, as title, property,
or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
v. t.
To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of
averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to
wean; -- with from.
n.
A stranger; an alien.
Alienate
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.
Alienate
To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
A stranger; an alien.
Usage Examples
Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them.
If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.
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Other Usage ExamplesFew things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.
I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
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