transitive verb
-·ized·, -·iz·ing 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
defamiliarize
de·fa·mil·iar·izeWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present defamiliarizes, present participle defamiliarizing, simple past and past participle defamiliarized)
- To make unfamiliar; to divest of familiarity.
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