denormalize
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editdenormalize (third-person singular simple present denormalizes, present participle denormalizing, simple past and past participle denormalized)
- (transitive, databases) To add redundancy to (a database schema), the opposite of normalization, typically in order to optimize its performance.
- (transitive) To make no longer normal; to treat or regard as different or unusual.
- 2018, Lee Quinby, Millennial Seduction: A Skeptic Confronts Apocalyptic Culture, page 139:
- One question these scenes pose for cultural theory is whether such depictions denaturalize rape and denormalize masculinist pleasure in viewing sexual violence.