If you alienate someone, you make them become unfriendly or unsympathetic towards you. The government cannot afford to alienate either group
To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; with from
{f} confiscate, requisition; transfer property; cause alienation or estrangement; separate, isolate
To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to wean; with from
To alienate a person from someone or something that they are normally linked with means to cause them to be emotionally or intellectually separated from them. His second wife, Alice, was determined to alienate him from his two boys