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defamiliarized

defamiliarized is the simple past and past participle of defamiliarize.

Meaning of defamiliarize

Verb

defamiliarize (third-person singular simple present defamiliarizes, present participle defamiliarizing, simple past and past participle defamiliarized)

  1. (transitive) To make unfamiliar; to divest of familiarity.
    • From its speculated future position, the film [Carnage] thus defamiliarizes and invites us to recognize the absurdities of meat and dairy consumption.2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 227

Questions about defamiliarized

What is defamiliarized the simple past and past participle of?
Defamiliarized is the simple past and past participle of defamiliarize.

Words near defamiliarized in the dictionary

  1. defamiliarises
  2. defamiliarising
  3. defamiliarization
  4. defamiliarizations
  5. defamiliarize
  6. defamiliarized
  7. defamiliarizer
  8. defamiliarizers
  9. defamiliarizes
  10. defamiliarizing
  11. defaming

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Adapted from Wiktionary: defamiliarized (page history and authors); defamiliarize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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