abalienate
Meanings
verb
- To make another's that which was once yours; to transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.
- To estrange in feeling; to cause alienation of.
- To to cause loss or perversion of intellect.
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Etymology
From Latin abaliēnātus, perfect passive participle of abaliēnō (“alienate; remove”); from ab- (“by, from; away”) + aliēnō (“alienate, estrange”); from aliēnus (“foreign, alien”), from alius (“other, another”). Equivalent to ab- + alienate.
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