alienate
verbTo make someone feel separated, unwelcome, or no longer sympathetic.
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Clear all filtersTo make someone feel separated, unwelcome, or no longer sympathetic.
To contradict an appearance or suggest that something is misleading.
Showing a careless or dismissive attitude toward an important matter.
Overflowing with cheerful energy and enthusiasm.
Overflowing with enthusiasm
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In place of something else.
Unable to be taken away or transferred.
Able to recover or return to form after difficulty or pressure.
Returning to physical form
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Especially noticeable or important.
A reduction in intensity, amount, or severity.
To reduce a fear, concern, or other troubling feeling.
Ease a troubling feeling
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To make a difficulty, burden, or discomfort less severe.
Something that differs from what is usual or expected.
Something that came earlier and helped shape a later event or development.
Earlier event or development
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Something accepted as true for the purpose of reasoning, without necessarily having been established.
Unreasonably intolerant of people or opinions outside one's own group or beliefs.
Providing a release of strong or pent-up emotions.
Psychological discomfort associated with a perceived inconsistency among beliefs, attitudes, or behavior.
Discomfort from conflicting beliefs
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Readily noticeable or attracting attention.
Readily noticeable
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To say the opposite of a statement or to be inconsistent with it.
The beliefs or judgments that are widely accepted about a subject.
A firmly held belief.
Worthy of belief or trust.
Too ready to believe what one is told.
To reduce, restrict, or bring to an earlier end.
Reduce or cut short
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