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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Verb

But in producing and posting videos that feel very much like ads for Higgsfield, both creators left portions of their audiences feeling alienated.

— Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 21 Aug. 2026
He was soon being pilloried on several fronts including management decisions that alienated key executives, and a public fight with star Scarlett Johansson.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of alienated

Verb

Once in office, however, Biden ceded his domestic agenda to progressives who believed in Sanders’s vision of transformational change.

— Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2026
After the city ceded control of Riis to the federal government, in the nineteen-seventies, the monument to public recreation was shuttered.

— Jake Offenhartz, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of ceded

Verb

But for the medieval and classics scholar in Kratz, the film invited questions and infuriated him at times.

— Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 18 Aug. 2026
Under its previous operator, Mountain View had been plagued by riots that drew negative press and infuriated locals.

— Paige Pfleger, ProPublica, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of infuriated

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The images conveyed gravity, purpose and leadership in a time of existential crisis.

— Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2026
The real reason the episode works, though, is its nifty, twisty structure, a series of stories conveyed to an absent Marshall via flashbacks and phone calls.

— Erin Strecker, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of conveyed

Verb

Elias is the Clarke siblings’ estranged father and co-founder of the family rodeo with his late wife.

— Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2026
The prince and his wife have been estranged from the royal family but are now returning to England with their children, Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5.

— Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of estranged

Verb

The rule requires election officials to submit each mail voter’s name and address to a new USPS portal, along with unique Intelligent Mail barcodes assigned to the envelopes used to send and return that voter’s ballot.

— Luke Fountain, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
Such was the case for David Dastmalchian, who was filming 2021’s The Suicide Squad in Panama when the CDS assigned him a new feline companion.

— Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Aug. 2026

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The White House had previously angered US ranchers by quadrupling low-tariff imports of Argentine beef to cool prices.

— Max Saltman, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
During a joint practice last summer in Houston, Moehrig decked Texans wide receiver Xavier Hutchinson on a hard but clean hit that angered a few of Hutchinson’s teammates.

— Joseph Person, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of angered

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Settlement Institutions need capital, controls, systems and people to manage the gap between when a trade is agreed and the asset plus the payment are transferred.

— Federico Sendra, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Funds added to your Checking Account are transferred to your Chime Card Secured Deposit Account - other than Chime Card cash deposits at retailers, which go to your Chime Card Account, then deposit to your Secured Deposit Account.

— Jason Stauffer, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2026

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