transmogrify
to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.
Origin of transmogrify
1Other words from transmogrify
- trans·mog·ri·fi·ca·tion, noun
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How to use transmogrify in a sentence
It was “currently under cannibalization and transmogrification into a very strange movie,” he said then, and that was that.
Well, I'm blowed, here's a transmogrification; he's consolidified himself into a blessed brick—my eye, here's a curiosity.
Varney the Vampire | Thomas Preskett PrestHe has undergone the same transmogrification that befell Vergil.
Now they were submitting themselves to this deforming discipline, undergoing this devilish transmogrification.
Jimmie Higgins | Upton SinclairThen the dim, flickering light and the incense of the tobacco accomplished their transmogrification.
The Bachelors | William Dana Orcutt
It would be a vain attempt for me to describe the horror I endured at this dreadful transmogrification.
Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 | Various
British Dictionary definitions for transmogrify
/ (trænzˈmɒɡrɪˌfaɪ) /
(tr) jocular to change or transform into a different shape, esp a grotesque or bizarre one
Origin of transmogrify
1Derived forms of transmogrify
- transmogrification, noun
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