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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.

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.

Alienate \Al"ien*ate\, n.
A stranger; an alien. [Obs.]

Alienate \Al"ien*ate\ ([=a]l"yen*[asl]t), a. [L. alienatus, p.
p. of alienare, fr. alienus. See {Alien}, and cf. {Aliene}.]
Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.

O alienate from God. --Milton.

And to solve that economic puzzle, it must take unpopular steps that will tend to alienate its bedrock of support, the Polish worker.
Such a move could alienate American Jews, most of whom belong to the Reform and Conservative branches of Judaism.
DP leaders are mostly Kikuyu and former members of the government. Political analysts say the DP may further alienate the Kikuyu inhabitants of the populous Central Province, away from the ruling party.
It doesn't increase the federal deficit, doesn't affect federal services, doesn't cost the president political support, doesn't alienate most special interests.
The company can't afford to alienate customers who have spent billions of dollars on IBM machines and the software that operates on them.
"His piano concertos in D minor and C minor began to alienate the public.
One is that it dare not further alienate constituents by adding the insult of a confusing new defence philosophy to the injury of reduced military spending.
"If we're not careful and we turn the chairmanship fight into a racial thing then, yes, we can alienate everybody," said Jim Ruvolo, chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party.
A veto could alienate Arab allies, while letting it pass would outrage Israel and its Jewish friends in America.
While these moves may alienate some speed lovers, the car makers say soaring insurance rates are forcing their hands.
But they concede that deregulation has forced them to adopt cost-cutting practices that might alienate some passengers.
And past efforts to focus G-7 attention on the manipulation of exchange rates have served only to alienate Messrs. Brady, Greenspan and others in the U.S. from the coordination process.
On another they concluded that the flat-rate charges implied by permits would alienate many traditional Conservative party supporters in rural or semi-rural areas who use sections of the motorway for relatively short journeys.
"He doesn't want to alienate people."
He also managed to alienate members of his own party from the left and the right.
"What he has managed to do is alienate both sides," says Arizona State University pollster Bruce Merrill.
They say the Orthodox proposal would symbolically excommunicate them from Judaism and alienate U.S. Jews from Israel.
In the process the government will alienate millions of natural supporters - commuters and the users of rural BR lines - in the next general election.
Is that because we're afraid of offending Mr. Gorbachev or don't want to alienate him? A: It's because we want to see the evolution of the control of the territory there, and also, we want to see peaceful resolution to this question.
Despite their "get tough" stance, ministry officials know they can't afford to impose sanctions that would alienate the Big Four.
"You can't alienate them all.
Spectre said such an amendment would alienate Conservative and Reform Jews, who are the vast majority of the 5 million in America.
"It's a gutsy move and most airlines don't make gutsy moves," Hatch said. "It could alienate some people." Three smokers, who were waiting to depart on Northwest flights Wednesday from Minneapolis-St.
In an apparent effort not to alienate his most conservative constituents, Kohl has never formally stated that a united Germany would not lay claim to that land and this is viewed as a major difficulty in the unification process.
Neither West German party wants to alienate West German voters who fear higher taxes and interest rates and deflated buying power as they bail out the doddering East German economy.
Special Counsel's Ms. Friedman adds: "No business person would force lawyers to work more or fewer hours because it would alienate both attorneys and clients."
The allies have been anxious not to alienate US opinion and maintain a strong US presence in Europe.
Further rejection would not only strike a blow at Islam's only liberal democratic state, it might alienate an important North Atlantic Treaty Organization ally.
Some Democrats privately questioned whether the selection of Brown, who is black and identified with Jackson, would alienate Southern and blue-collar voters who have deserted the Democrats in recent presidential elections.
The price increase is "a calculated gamble" that could alienate customers, said Ralph Rush of Technomic Inc., a Chicago-based food consulting firm.

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