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strangen en · VERB

Etymology

From strange + -en.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive, rare) To 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:
   • […] 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:

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strangening