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strangen

strangen verb: to make or become strange.

Verb

strangen (third-person singular simple present strangens, present participle strangening, simple past and past participle strangened)

  1. (ambitransitive, rare) To make or become strange.
    • […] such a silence, heavy and weird and motionless, was everywhere; such peace, honey-heavy, strangening the world!1929, Ella Young, The Tangle-coated Horse and Other Tales
    • It offers a possible explanation for the viro- , cancero- and immunemodulative ^([sic]) activities of those compounds in their ability to strangen the common nucleic acid pattern of bioorganism and to provoke both humoral and cellular non-self recognitions, […]1978, Alexandre Blumstein, editor, Mesomorphic order in polymers and polymerization in liquid crystalline media

Examples of strangen in a sentence

  • The act of coming out and the various points of exposure function like generators of further making strange, or strangening, of identity.2019, Lauren Berlant, Reading Sedgwick:
  • […] that is transforming love and happiness into death and mourning, that is strangening a familiar emotion in order to explain their situated reality.2025, Beatriz Revelles-Benavente, Feminist Literature as Everyday Use, page 58:

Forms of strangen

third-person singular presentstrangens
present participlestrangening
past participlestrangened
paststrangened

Origin of strangen

From strange + -en.

Words formed from strangen

Questions about strangen

What does strangen mean?
Strangen means to make or become strange.
How do you use strangen in a sentence?
The act of coming out and the various points of exposure function like generators of further making strange, or strangening, of identity.
What part of speech is strangen?
Strangen is a verb.
What is the past tense of strangen?
The past tense of strangen is strangened.

Words near strangen in the dictionary

  1. strangelings
  2. Strangelovean
  3. Strangelovian
  4. strangely
  5. strangely warmed
  6. strangen
  7. strangeness
  8. strangenesses
  9. strangening
  10. strangeon
  11. strangeon star

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