disaffect
[verb]
Synonyms: estrange, alien, alienate, disunify, disunite, wean

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Antonyms: win (over)
Related Words: agitate, discompose, disquiet, disturb, upset

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disaffect verb trans. [dɪsǝ'fɛkt] E17.
[from DIS- 2 + AFFECT verb¹.]
1. Have no affection for; dislike, regard with aversion. arch. E17.
■ J. Shirley Unless you disaffect his person.

2. Alienate, estrange; make unfriendly or less friendly; spec. make discontented with a constituted authority, as the Government, one's employer, etc. M17.
■ G. F. Kennan The Communists..set about trying to disaffect these men from their loyalty to their own governments.

■ disaffected ppl adjective that has been disaffected; unfriendly; discontent, spec. with a constituted authority, as the Government, one's employer, etc.: M17.

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