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What does disaffect mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To cause a loss of affection, sympathy or loyalty in; to alienate or estrange.
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And these first glimpses of the happy lives of others seemed to disaffect me more than ever with my own.
Crime has reduced significantly, but poor educational attainment, poor housing and high unemployment continue to disaffect whole communities.
Be sure that you keep up true conjugal love to one another, and that you grow not to disaffect the persons of each other.
If you do this not only to people who may or may not be guilty, but to a whole community, how can you not expect this action to radicalize and disaffect that community?
She avoids scholarly apparatus that would disaffect Hughes's loyal readership in particular and a literate public in general.
As is often the case in journalism, if you disaffect both parties you know you are doing something right.

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