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Past tense of alienate

regular verb

The past tense of alienate is alienated. The past participle is also alienated.

Forms of alienate

Base form (V1)alienate /ˈeɪ.li.ə.neɪt/
Past tense (V2)alienated
Past participle (V3)alienated
Present participlealienating
Third person singularalienates

Alienated in a sentence

  • His self-aggrandizing talk alienated his colleagues, who had done the work he claimed credit for.From the entry self-aggrandizing
  • Her arrogant attitude alienated the team.From the entry arrogant
  • The Europeanness of Tom’s wealth had alienated her, especially the way it reduced Grandfather’s wealth to nothing.2020, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, The First Woman, Oneworld Publications, page 142. From the entry Europeanness
  • Women’s suppression compels them to live in their self-exiled and alienated world.2016, Kaptan Singh, Women in Exile and Alienation. From the entry self-exiled
  • This alienated the new kind of audience that populated the halls of the cafés chantants.2016, Mariano D’Amora, “Raffaele Viviani”, in A History of Neapolitan Drama in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, page 29. From the entry café chantant

Meaning of alienate

  1. adjective Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign.
  2. noun A stranger; an alien.
  3. verb To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.

Full definition of alienate

Questions about the past tense of alienate

What is the past tense of alienate?
The past tense of alienate is alienated.
What is the past participle of alienate?
The past participle of alienate is alienated.
Is alienate a regular or irregular verb?
Alienate is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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