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What does defamiliarize mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To make unfamiliar; to divest of familiarity.
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When close-ups are used, they individualize people rather than defamiliarize objects.
It seems to defamiliarize and therefore refresh it.
The dance, likely to be as inscrutable as the title, tries to defamiliarize funeral processions, folk dances, and other social customs.
I have certain strategies involved with trying to slightly defamiliarize English.
Through June 30 Some of today's most interesting artists continue to fulfill one of art's oldest assignments: to defamiliarize the familiar.
Peele uses familiar devices and situations in order to defamiliarize them.

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