alienate

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A stranger; an alien. obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
  2. To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted.
    — The errors which […] alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart.
  3. To cause one to feel unable to relate.
形容词 adj.
  1. Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign archaic,not-comparable
    — O alienate from God.

词形变化

alienates plural alienates present,singular,third-person alienating participle,present alienated participle,past alienated past

词汇关系

反义词
accept befriend
衍生词
abalienate realienate unalienate

词源

词源 1
From Middle English alienat(e) (“deranged; uncertain; sequestred, secluded”), from Latin aliēnātus, perfect passive participle of aliēnō (“to estrange, alienate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from aliēnus. By surface analysis, alien + -ate. See alien, and compare aliene.
词源 2
From a substantivation of the above adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Cognate with French aliéner (“a crazed, mad man, lunatic”).
词源 3
Either from the above adjective or directly borrowed from Latin alienātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Cognate with French aliéner.
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