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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
alienating
    adj 1: causing hostility or loss of friendliness; "her sudden
           alienating aloofness"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Alienate \Al"ien*ate\ (-[=a]t), 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.
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   2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of
      averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to
      estrange; to wean; -- with from.
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            The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and
            priesthood from the House of Stuart.  --Macaulay.
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            The recollection of his former life is a dream that
            only the more alienates him from the realities of
            the present.                          --I. Taylor.
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