unstrange

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English unstraunge, equivalent to un- + strange.

Adjective

unstrange (comparative more unstrange, superlative most unstrange)

  1. Not strange.
    • 2007 February 18, Kathryn Harrison, “Lives in the Arts”, in New York Times:
      What’s more, “it did so in a notably unstrange manner.”

Etymology 2

From un- + strange.

Verb

unstrange (third-person singular simple present unstranges, present participle unstranging, simple past and past participle unstranged)

  1. (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.
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