Usually means: Make familiar objects seem strange.
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  1. defamiliarize: Merriam-Webster
  2. defamiliarize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defamiliarize: Wiktionary
  4. defamiliarize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. defamiliarize: Dictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (defamiliarize)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To make unfamiliar; to divest of familiarity.

Similar:
defamiliarise, disacquaint, unstrange, disinure, estrange, disfeature, disnaturalize, denormalize, decontextualize, defictionalize, more...

Opposite:
familiarize, normalize, habituate, acclimate

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Similar:
defamiliarise, disacquaint, unstrange, disinure, estrange, disfeature, disnaturalize, denormalize, decontextualize, defictionalize, more...

Opposite:
familiarize, normalize, habituate, acclimate



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