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Word: Defamiliarize
Speech Type: Verb
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˌdiːfəˈmɪlɪərʌɪz
Dialects: British English
Definition:
make (something) unfamiliar or strange
Short Definition:make something unfamiliar or strange
Examples:- art serves to defamiliarize our experience of our own present
Variant Forms:
- defamiliarise
