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alienate
What does alienate mean?
alienate (verb): to estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use alienate in a sentence?
- With that attitude, you will alienate all of your potential allies. (Tatoeba sentence #8860380 by AlanF_US, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce alienate?
/ˈeɪliəneɪt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
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What does “alienate” mean?
to boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself
Not quite: that's what brag means.
to estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted
Right! That's what “alienate” means.
to start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused; continue, carry on
Not quite: that's what resume means.
to disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking
Not quite: that's what interrupt means.
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