alienate

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For every voting block they alienate, that is one more block they are giving to the dems.

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  1. transitive verb To cause to become unfriendly or hostile; estrange: alienate a friend; alienate potential supporters by taking extreme positions. See Synonyms at estrange.
  2. transitive verb To cause to become withdrawn or unresponsive; isolate or dissociate emotionally: The numbing labor tended to alienate workers.
  3. transitive verb To cause to be transferred; turn away: "He succeeded . . . in alienating the affections of my only ward” (Oscar Wilde).
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  • For every voting block they alienate, that is one more block they are giving to the dems. —  Think Progress
  • Those of their audience they don't alienate, they will bore. —  Comment Central - Times Online - WBLG
  • As their pride did not quit them with their prosperity, so now, driven by necessity, they trafficked with the sole capital which they could not alienate--their nobility, and the political influence of their names; and brought into circulation a coin which only in such a period could have found currency--their protection. —  The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
  • As their pride did not quit them with their prosperity, so now, driven by necessity, they trafficked with the sole capital which they could not alienate--their nobility and the political influence of their names; and brought into circulation a coin which only in such a period could have found currency--their protection. —  The Works of Frederich Schiller
  • Bolam said art should not alienate, and he thinks he's achieved that, with one notable exception. —  Ancient Macs Make Modern Art
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alienate:   alienating ·  alienated ·  alienates
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Latin aliēnāre, aliēnāt-, from Latin aliēnus, alien; see alien.

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  1. from Latin alienatus, past participle of alienare, make alien, estrange: see alien, v.
  2. from Latin alienatus, past participle as above, in the past participle sense.
 

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