"defreak" meaning in English

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        "To cause no longer to be freakish, or a freak."
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        "(colloquial, rare, transitive) To cause no longer to be freakish, or a freak."
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        "(colloquial, rare, transitive) To cause no longer to be freaked out; to calm down."
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