ALIENED Synonyms: 100 Similar and Opposite Words

aliened

verb

past tense of alien

as in alienated

to cause to change from friendly or loving to unfriendly or uncaring such angry outbursts will rapidly alien any friends you might possibly have left

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as in ceded

to give over the legal possession or ownership of the couple plans to alien the adjoining house lot to their eldest son

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Moreover, Iran alienated several of its neighbors in the Gulf by launching retaliatory attacks against them and upending regional trade through the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

— Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 3 July 2026
Unluckily, Alys, freshly alienated by Daemon, arrives just in time to nurse the enemy of her enemy back to health.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 June 2026

Definition of alienated

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The Microsoft 365 Copilot AI assistant has yet to gain anything approaching ubiquity in the business world, and the GitHub Copilot coding agent has ceded market share to newer players.

— Jordan Novet, CNBC, 2 July 2026
This strategy contrasts with running brands like On and Hoka, reporting clear sales growth in performance running, a segment Nike ceded.

— Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026

Definition of ceded

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The View From the FCC’s flank The FCC’s aggressive pressure on news networks has infuriated the dissenting member of the commission.

— Max Tani, semafor.com, 6 July 2026
They’re infuriated with a military that turned out to repress civilian protests in recent years, but appeared slow to mobilize in support of earthquake victims this week.

— Tibisay Zea, Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2026

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Impressive statistics that, in no way, fully conveyed how thoroughly the second-year guard out of Florida dominated the Lakers on Friday.

— Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 4 July 2026
If James’ interest in returning to the Heat is serious, the team would have interest in making that happen, a league source conveyed earlier this week.

— Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026

Definition of conveyed

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The pair have reportedly been in contact since, though Harry still appears to be estranged from his brother Prince William.

— Max Foster, CNN Money, 4 July 2026
Aside from Hannah, who also chose to live with their father, Collin is estranged from his siblings, in addition to being estranged from his mother.

— Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026

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When the time came for the Southern Living staff to begin the process of combing through 60 years of recipes, we were each randomly assigned a couple of issues from various years.

— Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 8 July 2026
The moniker was assigned to Trump by Kurt Andersen and Grayden Carter’s Spy Magazine in 1988 as a sardonic stab at his attention grasping drive.

— Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 8 July 2026

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They also have been angered by Kennedy’s attempts to link vaccines to autism, going against decades of research that show no such link, and his framing of autism as a debilitating disease.

— Annie Ma, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
They've also been angered by Kennedy's attempts to link vaccines to autism, going against decades of research that show no such link, and his framing of autism as a debilitating disease.

— ABC News, ABC News, 1 July 2026

Definition of angered

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The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California displays another former Air Force One jet, but it wasn't transferred there until 2003, 14 years after his presidency.

— Zac Anderson, USA Today, 10 July 2026
It is rumored that he will be transferred from German club SC Freiburg to English Premier League giant Newcastle.

— PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2026

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