strangify

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make strange or exotic. transitive
    — In 1970, Nabokov specifically took issue with an attempt critically to explicate his work within this Russian formalist matrix, arguing: "What doesn't make strange, estrange, strangify in a book , if the author is a genuine artist? No, leave those terms alone. Avoid textbook truth"
  2. To extend so as to be accessible to others; to universalize. transitive
    — If I want to make myself understandable to you, I need to strangify my discourse into your language. If I want to make my ideals universally 'practiceable', I cannot force you to practice it in my social context; I need to strangify my ideals into your social context.

词形变化

strangifies present,singular,third-person strangifying participle,present strangified participle,past strangified past

词汇关系

相关词
strangification

词源

From strange + -ify.
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