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alienate English

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alienate Verb

— If you alienate somebody, you make them feel unfriendly or unwelcome. These children who just can't be quiet in class, may alienate friends and upset the classroom.

alienate

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been love, affection, or friendliness She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious — verb make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated the boring work alienated his employees — verb (= alien) transfer property or ownership The will aliened the property to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

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estrange alien shun neglect transfer disaffect slight eschew distance oneself from disregard avoid assign expropriate dispose discourage convey antagonize ward off turn away transference submit separate move grant disturb dispossess demise yield up yield wrest wean vex vacate trouble transplant translocate transfuse traffic take off take away take syndicate strip stave off sign over sidetrack shift set apart set against separated

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Movie subtitles

And the Mayor cannot alienate the police force.
If you'd run the whole thing, you're gonna alienate everybody in this town.
You can't alienate anybody up there.
Took a lot for you to alienate him.
If you're clever, you will not alienate me.
I had no idea he would alienate the entire neighbourhood.
Mr. Bennett, who would you prefer to alienate, your perspective wife or her celebrated father?
It should be obvious that by alienating Riker you also alienate Baran and yet you continue to do so.
You've managed to get slapped by one woman, a drink thrown in your face by another, and alienate your two best friends.
I should spend more time trying to alienate them.
Why must you always alienate everybody?
Or you'll alienate him because of it.
Why do you alienate me?
Taylor, the last thing you wanna do five weeks before the election. is alienate people.
Yes, Randolph. First you take my son away, and now you want to alienate my grandchild.
You do what feel you must do without caring whether you alienate anyone or. whether they understand you or not.
Even if somebody wanted to steal my wife away. and alienate my whole family from me, I wouldn't know about it.
The priorities are. a long, hot summer ahead, and riots are expected. and the mayor cannot alienate the police force.
You can't alienate anybody up there. Nobody.
She's convinced this would alienate him from you. Come now, Havisham. Am I to believe she's told him nothing of my antipathy for her?
It's obvious that by alienating Riker, you alienate Baran and yet you continue to do so.
You're right. I should spend more time trying to alienate them.
Don't alienate this boy, Ira.
Why do you always have to alienate everybody?
The priorities are. a long, hot summer ahead. and riots are expected. and the mayor cannot alienate the police force.
Why alienate him?
I've got an election in two years and I'm not about to alienate The Washington Post.
And my plan was to isolate and alienate.
It certainly won't help your client to alienate the judge.
I'm not about to alienate my fellow employees with my award-winning work ethic.
You know, Gob, maybe it's the suits, but I think you may be beginning. to alienate some of the employees down at work.
All you did was alienate them and undermine me in the process.
We go out on some limb here and alienate the Senate they'll tread water for three years and we get nobody.
We can't afford to alienate all of them.

News and current affairs

He was initially slow in fighting organized crime, because he did not want to alienate the bulk of Milosevic's mafia-infested establishment at once.
Nor can it afford to alienate its largest trading partner, a neighbor and an emerging global superpower, which is known to be prickly over any presumed slights to its sovereignty over Tibet.
Her ties to Brazil's huge evangelical churches, and her unwillingness to break with them on issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, and drug policy, alienate many voters.
Ignoring public opinion concerning an issue as critical as the security laws will only alienate the middle class further and deepen a festering crisis of legitimacy.
Undergraduate-level microeconomics should empower students, not alienate them.
Ibn Saud managed to conquer and unite the vast territory of the Arabian Peninsula, give it his family name, and alienate, divide, and control his cousins and brothers in order to establish a clear and undisputed line of succession through his sons.
The mainland was simply too large and too important economically and strategically to alienate.
As a new report by the Open Society Justice Initiative shows, by targeting ethnic minorities, police alienate some of the very people on whom they depend for cooperation and intelligence.
All of a sudden, issuers had much more influence on the rating agencies, which, like any good seller, were ready to bend a little not to alienate important customers.
On top of that, Moreno-Ocampo's request might further alienate the Great Powers (China, Russia, and the United States) that are currently hostile to the ICC.
Gaining fewer than 30 of its 120 seats might drive it to seek potential partners among the orthodox - an approach that could alienate moderate secular voters.
In adverse economic circumstances, governments felt vulnerable and unsure, and they could not afford to alienate public support.
So, in introducing a new style of governance, exemplified by merit-based cabinet appointments, Jokowi must be careful not to alienate the political and business elites who have long benefited from their tight grip on power.
It may be careful not to alienate America, but it will struggle to build a collaborative relationship with its regional neighbors.
The West, and Europe in particular, really can't afford to alienate Turkey, considering their interests, but objectively it is exactly this kind of estrangement that follows from European policy towards Turkey in the last few years.

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