alienate

Verbs

  • (v) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
    • She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious
    disaffect, alien, estrange,
  • (v) transfer property or ownership
    • The will aliened the property to the heirs
    alien,
  • (v) make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated
    • the boring work alienated his employees

Synonyms

disaffect alien estrange

Words of close approximity

alienage
alienated