1SUPPORT A PERSON, GROUP, OR PLANto do something that makes someone unfriendly or unwilling to support you 使疏遠,失去…的支持
The latest tax proposals will alienate many voters.
最新的納稅提案將失去遠許多選民的支持。
2to make it difficult for someone to belong to a particular group or to feel comfortable with a particular person 使格格不入,疏遠
alienate somebody from something
He felt that his experiences had alienated him from society.
他感到自己的經歷令他與社會格格不入。
—alienatedadjectiveadj
Gina had become alienated from her family.
吉娜與家人疏遠了。
Examples from the Corpus
alienate• In the process, he alienated his wife and kids and began living in a motel room.• But, by courting them with such policies, they may alienatemainstreamvoters.• Jackson's commentsalienated many baseball fans.• The situation brought out the viciousness in him, and I felt he was almost certainly going to alienate Émile for good.• He felt safer in the intellect, a fact that would at timesalienate those who thought him arrogant or intolerant.