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English Dictionary: alienating by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
alienating
adj
  1. causing hostility or loss of friendliness; "her sudden alienating aloofness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Alienate \Al"ien*ate\ (-[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.
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