alienate

Do the Republicans want to alienate important constituencies they will need in 2016?

The President did not want to alienate Southern legislators whose votes he needed on his New Deal legislation.

Further violence and escalation of the events into a civil war would only alienate him from the bulk of the Ukrainian people.

Positioning yourself against President Obama is a good way to alienate the most important constituency in the Democratic Party.

That may work spectacularly well, or it may alienate some users.

A Christian who would attain perfection, ought to drive away from his mind all that can alienate him from heaven—his true country.

In 1790 Pitt was opposing his wishes elsewhere; he was unwilling to alienate him altogether, and agreed to put pressure on Russia.

Such cruel insinuations can never alienate from you the friends who love you.

He lampooned the prince regent, yet he could not alienate the Tories.

We could not see what should again alienate us from one another, or how one brother could again oppress another.