defamiliarize

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To make unfamiliar; to divest of familiarity.

Similar words

defamiliarise disacquaint unstrange disinure estrange disfeature disnaturalize denormalize decontextualize defictionalize

Often followed by

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Word family

defamiliarization defamiliarizations defamiliarized defamiliarizes defamiliarizing