ALIENATE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of alienate in English

(Definition of alienate from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of alienate from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of alienate

alienate
Commonly, they felt alienated from non-combatant society, frustrated at personal failure, and resentful of inadequate government policies and pettyminded officials.
The book has a major disadvantage too, because it alienates the less able students.
At the same time, diplomats are odd people, plucked from their home cultures, yet representing them in alien and perhaps alienating climes.
The features on the surface of the model are distorted and alienated as the material repeats itself.
All this is good news to the urban historian alienated by the abstractions of architectural history.
Labor could be creative or alienated; labor power could be a capacity or a commodity.
The counter-insurgent responds with even greater force that does not spare the civilian population, thereby alienating it.
Communication is so difficult that centre and periphery become alienated.
As a consequence, local communities have to a large extent been alienated from the wildlife.
Students who could not afford to pay the costly private fees felt alienated from their more well-to-do classmates.
Thirdly, as in wakeful perception, images perceived in dreams are alienated from the dreamer who finds himself interacting with apparently external objects and events.
Yancey's (1995) study also attempts to go beyond the confines of school to identify young people who might be alienated from that setting.
If the industry fails to address their use of older negative stereotypes, they risk alienating the rapidly growing older market and dissuading younger consumers.
Again, the primary means of sonically evoking this alienating experience is through synthesizers and the heavy use of electronic recording techniques.
Their revelry and riotous behaviour alienated them from the city inhabitants : they were seen as a good-for-nothing bunch, best avoided.
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Translations of alienate

in Chinese (Traditional)
離間, 使背離, 使不友好…
in Chinese (Simplified)
离间, 使背离, 使不友好…
in Spanish
alienar…
in Portuguese
alienar, afastar…
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başkalaştırmak, aralarını açmak, uzak durmasını sağlamak…
aliéner, s’aliéner…
遠(とお)ざける…
vervreemden…
odcizit se, vytrhnout…
fremmedgøre, støde fra sig, frastøde…
membuat benci, menjauhkan diri, mengucilkan…
ทำให้หมางเมิน, ทำให้เหินห่าง…
làm cho xa lánh, bị xa lánh…
zrażać, wyobcować, zrażać do siebie…
stöta bort, alienerade…
dipinggirkan, merenggangkan…
entfremden…
avvise, støte bort, fremmedgjøre…
відштовхувати, відчужувати…
отталкивать, отдалять…
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