alienate > define
verb
- Arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness.
- usage: "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious"
- Transfer property or ownership.
- usage: "The will aliened the property to the heirs"
- synonyms: alien
- Make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated.
- usage: "the boring work alienated his employees"
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To convey or transfer to another, as title, property or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
- (a.) Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.
- (v.t.) To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from.
- (n.) A stranger; an alien.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
To transfer the title to a property from one party to another.