strangen

present singular third person strangens · participle present strangening · participle past strangened · past strangened

1. ambitransitiverareTo 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

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   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

   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