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What does defamiliarizing mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of defamiliarize
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By defamiliarizing well-known buildings, some of which we may have an image of in our mind, Sugimoto compels us to consider them with renewed attentiveness.
These initial defamiliarizing images set the tone for the sketch's central drama-the transformations that the youth's point of view undergoes.
The poems themselves act as fissures in the surface of consumerism, defamiliarizing cultural meanings.
Defamiliarizing noncomic material was another specialty, as when a guest cimbalom player abruptly turned glow-in-the-dark.
Getting into that mindset, defamiliarizing the familiar, is really fun.

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