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English Dictionary: alienated	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
alienated adj socially disoriented; "anomic loners musing over their fate"; "we live in an age of rootless alienated people" Synonym(s): alienated, anomic, disoriented caused to be unloved Synonym(s): alienated, estranged
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Alienate \Al"ienate\ (-[amac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Alienated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Alienating}.] 1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of. 2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from. The errors which . . . alienated* a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. --Macaulay. The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. --I. Taylor.