📚 Alienate, verb. 🔉 /ˈeɪlɪəneɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Make (someone) become unsympathetic or hostile. ❗️ Examples: 1. The association does not wish to alienate its members. 2. The experience will drive him away from his deaf parents and alienate him from an unsympathetic hearing world. 3. Orchin's difficulty was that to make the association more attractive to members he risked alienating the patrons who subsidized its activities. 4. I choose to be loyal to my values and to alienate my team members. 5. It is typical of Keegan not to wish to alienate people who are hoping to arrange an ecologically sound disposal of their mortal remains upon their own flowerbeds. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic