Social life
Synonyms for alienate
The synonym for alienate recorded in this bank is estrange, in the sense "to cause someone to become unfriendly or distant, especially through one's own actions". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for alienate
- estrangeverb, in the sense "to cause someone to become unfriendly or distant, especially through one's own actions"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day alienate is audited in a second meaning.
to cause someone to become unfriendly or distant, especially through one's own actions
His constant criticism began to alienate even his closest friends.
The true synonym
estrange
Same sentence, swapped: His constant criticism began to estrange even his closest friends.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- annoy
- warn
- confuse
Where alienate turns up in the game
alienate is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where alienate is the trap
- refineverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is elaborate, in the sense "make more complex, intricate, or richer", and alienate is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play alienate
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so alienate reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other social life words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. alienate carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.