unstrange

comparative more unstrange · superlative most unstrange

1. Not strange.

   What’s more, “it did so in a notably unstrange manner.”

   2007 February 18, Kathryn Harrison, “Lives in the Arts”, in New York Times

   Synonyms: mundane, ordinary, typical, average, medial, basic, bog-standard, common

present singular third person unstranges · participle present unstranging · participle past unstranged · past unstranged

1. raretransitiveTo remove the strangeness from; to make less strange; make familiar.

   When I was with you, I forgot about Mum and it made me less strange. It unstranged me.

   2018, Julia Prendergast, The Earth Does Not Get Fat, page 29

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   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.

   2021, Peter Joseph Gloviczki, Mediated Narration in the Digital Age: Storying the Media World