alienate

Object

• voter: That would remove any clear choice of political programs and further alienate voters from the political process.
• ally: That warning risked alienating foreign allies, she said.
• viewer: Didn't he realize that too many continuity references was alienating casual viewers?
• listener: They might be pigeonholing too narrowly, which could alienate some listeners and have an effect on the youth audience.
• supporter: The transformation of football has deeply alienated many supporters.
• labor: Just how central the theory of alienated labor is to the Marxist analysis of capitalism can be seen from two of Marx's propositions.

Used with why or when

• when: Tutors or the University assume everyone knows how to access everything and students feel alienated when they don't.

Adjective complement

• many: The 2004 draft Bill alienated many of us in the mental health sector from the process of reform.

Modifying Another Word

• increasingly: The private motor car plays a major role in the creation of a society in which individuals are increasingly alienated from others.
• permanently: Although children's borrowing is on the up, we are in danger of permanently alienating the mainstream UK adult audience.
• deeply: The transformation of football has deeply alienated many supporters.
• potentially: People are wary about any actions that could potentially alienate the public and allow activists to be easily cast as the villains.

Preposition: from

• politics: Research shows that people feel alienated from politics: they do not believe what politicians say.
• society: This resulted in the proletariat feeling alienated from society.
• process: They're also viewed as an underclass, completely alienated from the political process.
• life: Just because you go to church you're not alienated from life.
• system: Thousands of people who are returning to learning will be excluded from access or alienated from the system.
• reality: If not, is not watercolor painting just like computer programming in being " completely alienated from reality " ?