Disaffect (Verb)
Meaning
Arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness; "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious".
Classification
Verbs of feeling.
Examples
- His fanatical political views started to disaffect some of his colleagues and even lifelong friends who once supported him wholeheartedly.
- Her consistent boasting at the annual reunion managed to disaffect nearly all her old classmates over the years.
- Her aggressive outbursts of anger started to disaffect her husband and the kids, they eventually grew to be literally terrified of her mood swings.
- The scandals surrounding his presidency slowly started to disaffect certain portions of his base but still hadn't budged his core supporters one bit.
- The artist's switch to using computers in her paintings infuriated some critics and started to disaffect certain elements of her initial followers.