ALIENATE is a 8 letter word that starts with A.

1. \Al"ien*ate\ ([=a]l"yen*[asl]t), a. [L. alienatus, p.
   p. of alienare, fr. alienus. See {Alien}, and cf. {Aliene}.]
   Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.
         O alienate from God.                     --Milton.
   

2. \Al"ien*ate\ (-[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Alienated};
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Alienating}.]
   1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or
      right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
   2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of
      averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to
      estrange; to wean; -- with from.
            The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and
            priesthood from the House of Stuart.  --Macaulay.
            The recollection of his former life is a dream that
            only the more alienates him from the realities of
            the present.                          --I. Taylor.
   

3. \Al"ien*ate\, n.
   A stranger; an alien. [Obs.]