Difference between Alienate and Alien

What is the difference between Alienate and Alien?

Alienate as an adjective is estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from. while Alien as an adjective is pertaining to an alien.

Alienate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A stranger; an alien.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of. To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to wean.

Alien

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Pertaining to an alien.Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A person, animal, plant or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.A foreigner residing in a country.Any life form of extraterrestrial origin.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To estrange; to alienate.

Example sentence: Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

We hope you now know whether to use Alienate or Alien in your sentence.

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