defamiliarize

defamiliarize
defamiliarize [dē fə mil′yər īz΄, dē fəmil′ē ərīz΄]
vt.
defamiliarized, defamiliarizing
to make (something well-known or well-established) seem unfamiliar, strange, disconcerting, etc., as in order to reinterpret or subvert it [to defamiliarize accepted truths]

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