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defamiliarizing

Variant of defamiliarize

transitive verb defamiliarized, defamiliarizing

to make (something well-known or well-established) seem unfamiliar, strange, disconcerting, etc., as in order to reinterpret or subvert it: to defamiliarize accepted truths
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