Āl'ien-āte1, v. t.
(ăl'yen-āt) (Synop., § 130), v. t. [imp. & p. p. ALIENATED; p. pr. & vb. n. ALIENATING.] [Lat. alienare, Fr. aliéner, Pr. alienar. See ALIEN.]
Sense 1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right.
Sense 2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; — with from; as, to alienate a loyal gentry.
The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. A. Taylor.