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DISAFFECT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness

Example:

She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious

Synonyms:

alienate; disaffect; estrange

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "disaffect" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disaffect"):

drift apart; drift away (lose personal contact over time)

wean (detach the affections of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The performance is likely to disaffect Sue

Derivation:

disaffection (the feeling of being alienated from other people)

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