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transmogrify

[ trans-mog-ruh-fahy, tranz- ]
/ trænsˈmɒg rəˌfaɪ, trænz- /
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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.

RELATED WORDS

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

Nearby words

transmittal, transmittance, transmittancy, transmitter, transmittivity, transmogrify, transmontane, transmundane, transmural, transmutation, transmutative

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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British Dictionary definitions for transmogrify

transmogrify

/ (trænzˈmɒɡrɪˌfaɪ) /

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

transmogrify

v.

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

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