Third person singular present tense of alienate; to make someone feel isolated, separated, or no longer part of a group; or to transfer property to someone else.
From alienate, from Latin alienatus (made another's), from alienare (to make strange or foreign). The verb has both legal sense (transfer property) and social sense (create distance between people).
The word has a fascinating double life: lawyers use it for property transfer, while psychologists use it to describe the emotional distance that grows between people—both involve creating separation.
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