Al·ien·ate 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.
alienating
adj : causing hostility or loss of friendliness; "her sudden
alienating aloofness"