0 present participle of alienate
1 to cause someone or a group of people to stop supporting and agreeing with you:
All these changes to the newspaper have alienated its traditional readers.
2 to make someone feel that they are different and not part of a group:
Both were afraid not only of alienating allies, but also of vagrancy and chaos within their domains.
The total experience is not alienating or frightening, as it may be in a hall of mirrors.
Second, issues of audience reception and the alienating effects of the superior moral tone noted above are not properly addressed.
It is here that the work proves such an interesting mixture of the conceptual and the musical, of alienating modernist idiosyncracy and involving popular spectacle.
But they also avoid it so as not to 'ruffle anyone's feathers', to prevent alienating friends and disrupting social relations.
At the same time, diplomats are odd people, plucked from their home cultures, yet representing them in alien and perhaps alienating climes.
The counter-insurgent responds with even greater force that does not spare the civilian population, thereby alienating it.
The feeling of estrangement that permeates science fiction is bound to the scientific worldview, and the alienating discovery of the new universe.
