transmogrify

[ trans-mog-ruh-fahy, tranz- ]
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verb (used with object),trans·mog·ri·fied, trans·mog·ri·fy·ing.
  1. to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.

Origin of transmogrify

1
1650–60; earlier also transmigrify, transmography; apparently a pseudo-Latinism with transfigure or transmigrate + -ify

Other words from transmogrify

  • trans·mog·ri·fi·ca·tion, noun

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British Dictionary definitions for transmogrify

transmogrify

/ (trænzˈmɒɡrɪˌfaɪ) /


verb-fies, -fying or -fied
  1. (tr) jocular to change or transform into a different shape, esp a grotesque or bizarre one

Origin of transmogrify

1
C17: of unknown origin

Derived forms of transmogrify

  • transmogrification, noun

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