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defamiliarizing

defamiliarizing is the present participle and gerund 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 defamiliarizing

What is defamiliarizing the present participle and gerund of?
Defamiliarizing is the present participle and gerund of defamiliarize.

Words near defamiliarizing in the dictionary

  1. defamiliarize
  2. defamiliarized
  3. defamiliarizer
  4. defamiliarizers
  5. defamiliarizes
  6. defamiliarizing
  7. defaming
  8. defamingly
  9. defamings
  10. defamous
  11. defang

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Adapted from Wiktionary: defamiliarizing (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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