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alienate verb ( LOSE SUPPORT )

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Definition

to cause someone or a group of people to stop supporting and agreeing with you
All these changes to the newspaper have alienated its traditional readers.

(Definition of alienate verb (LOSE SUPPORT) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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