Alienate and Keep

Alienate

Alienate verb - To cause to change from friendly or loving to unfriendly or uncaring.

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Keep and alienate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Keep" instead a verb "Alienate".

Nearby Words: alien, alienation, alienating, alienable

Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.

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Alienate and keep are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Alienate" instead a verb "Keep".

Nearby Words: keeping, keeper

people	alienate people	keep people
children	alienate children	keep children
family	alienate family	keep family
relationship	alienate relationship	keep relationship
Other words: team, audience, world, population, anyone, player, everyone, kids, friends, players.

Towards the end, their failed attempt to keep Wanderer alienated from the community only make them alienate themselves from this same community.

Source: Literature / The Host
To his credit, Orthallen sows rumors about her reliability and tries to alienate her from her friends precisely to keep her off-balance and disbelieved.

Source: Literature / Heralds of Valdemar
When Giygas begins to control him, he gets a taste of a much, much better life and does everything to keep it, including lie, steal, and alienate his only friend.

Source: Alternative Character Interpretation / Nintendo

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