unstrange
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English unstraunge, equivalent to un- + strange.
Adjective
[edit]unstrange (comparative more unstrange, superlative most unstrange)
- Not strange.
- 2007 February 18, Kathryn Harrison, “Lives in the Arts”, in New York Times[1]:
- What’s more, “it did so in a notably unstrange manner.”
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]unstrange (third-person singular simple present unstranges, present participle unstranging, simple past and past participle unstranged)
- (transitive, rare) To remove the strangeness from; to make less strange; make familiar.
- 2018, Julia Prendergast, The Earth Does Not Get Fat, page 29:
- When I was with you, I forgot about Mum and it made me less strange. It unstranged me.
- 2021, Peter Joseph Gloviczki, Mediated Narration in the Digital Age: Storying the Media World:
- Most specifically, to make visible is to unstrange what was once unknown into a series of knowable components, which the viewer's eye can then use to identify parts as one builds the whole.