ALIENS Synonyms: 135 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of alien

as in angers

to cause to change from friendly or loving to unfriendly or uncaring such angry outbursts will rapidly alien any friends you might possibly have left

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as in transfers

to give over the legal possession or ownership of the couple plans to alien the adjoining house lot to their eldest son

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expropriates

aliens

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noun

plural of alien

as in foreigners

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Recent Examples of aliens

Noun

Once again, we’re shown Blunt’s character being hijacked by aliens mid-weather report, uttering an alien language of clicks and pops. — ArsTechnica, 27 May 2026

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Lai and his Democratic Progressive Party champion Taiwan’s separate identity from China, a position that frequently angers Beijing, which views the island as Chinese territory.

— Reuters, NBC news, 5 Oct. 2026
The receptionist angers Kripke and Bert so much that they are picked up by the police — along with Stuart, who had also been arrested.

— Michael Schneider, Variety, 31 July 2026

Definition of angers

Verb

Knowing that an acquisition transfers total control in these areas is imperative.

— Michael Gargiulo, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
However, the fluid nature of water causes internal convection that rapidly transfers heat from the hot electrode to the cold electrode without generating additional power.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of transfers

Noun

Wealthy foreigners put hundreds of thousands of dollars into real estate or businesses, and governments gave them a foothold abroad.

— Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026
Kpodo, an architect, will exhibit work that addresses modernism, turning the focus away from tropical modernism centered on concrete buildings, which were often built by foreigners in Ghanaian cities.

— Gameli Hamelo, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of foreigners

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OpenAI cedes priority for the 3D Euler result to Buckmaster and Alpöge, while claiming it for the Navier-Stokes result.

— Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 8 Sep. 2026
Uber’s Nigeria departure now cedes ground to both firms and a crop of local players like LagRide, a startup backed by the state government in Lagos.

— Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of cedes

Noun

The case also prompted a warning to online sellers about the risks of bringing strangers to their homes, particularly when expensive merchandise is involved.

— Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Adelaide said that no doubt Pushkin would be remembered in perpetuity by friends and strangers.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of strangers

Verb

What outrages Marylanders is that this diabolical plan excludes the Preakness, devaluing it and implying the Triple Crown is irrelevant, if not dead.

— Stephen J. K. Walters, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2026
This baffles and outrages Angela, a protective mom who, with other parents, pushes back against Gabor using her math classroom as a forum for introducing the outside world’s worst actions.

— Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 7 Apr. 2026

Definition of outrages

Verb

Notably, in the new documents, NASA assigns an explicit price to crew and cargo missions.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 9 Oct. 2026
To help textile mills assess the impact of their headers, Fabscrap also developed a Smart Swatch Scorecard, which assigns header designs a grade, based on the number of components and the relative ease of disassembling them.

— Bella Webb, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026

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