transmogrify

[trans-mog-ruh-fahy, tranz-]

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verb (used with object), trans·mog·ri·fied, trans·mog·ri·fy·ing.

to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.

Origin of transmogrify

1650–60; earlier also transmigrify, transmography; apparently a pseudo-Latinism with trans-, -ify

Related formstrans·mog·ri·fi·ca·tion, noun

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Related Words for transmogrify

transmute, interchange, modify, make, transpose, transform, metamorphose, remodel, turn, switch, commute, reorganize, transubstantiate, apply, download, transfigure, appropriate, translate, alter, revise

British Dictionary definitions for transmogrify

transmogrify

verb -fies, -fying or -fied

(tr) jocular to change or transform into a different shape, esp a grotesque or bizarre one

Derived Formstransmogrification, noun

Word Origin for transmogrify

C17: of unknown origin

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Word Origin and History for transmogrify

"to change completely," 1650s, apparently a perversion of transmigure, from transmigrate, perhaps influenced by modify. Related: Transmogrified; transmogrifying.