Verb
- simple past tense and past participle of alienate
alienated
adjective
- Alienated is defined as someone who feels emotionally isolated or unloved.
A teenager who feels nobody likes him is an example of an alienated person.
- The definition of alienated means you made someone not like you or not want to be around you.
A person who lost friends because of his rude behavior is an example of someone who alienated his friends.
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Sentence Examples
- Howard had been alienated, and trusting anything with Connie was dubious.
- Daniel Webster supported the plan in his great speech of the 7th of March, although in doing so he alienated many of his former admirers.
- In 1086 three manors of Lyme are mentioned: that belonging to Sherborne abbey, which was granted at the dissolution to Thomas Goodwin, who alienated it in the following year; that belonging to Glastonbury, which seems to have passed into lay lands during the middle ages, and that belonging to William Belet.
- The Democratic party was even more radically divided on the question of monetary policy than the Republican; and President Cleveland, by securing the repeal of the silver purchase clause in the Sherman Act by Republican votes, had alienated a great majority of his party.
- The finances were speedily put on an excellent footing, means were provided for carrying on the war to a successful issue (one of the chief expedients being the raising of the Sound tolls) and on the conclusion of peace Oxe, as lord treasurer, not only reduced the national debt considerably, but redeemed a large portion of the alienated crown-lands.
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