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transmogrification - 3 dictionary results

trans⋅mog⋅ri⋅fy

  [trans-mog-ruh-fahy, tranz-]
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–verb (used with object), -fied, -fy⋅ing.
to change in appearance or form, esp. strangely or grotesquely; transform.
Origin:
1650–60; earlier also transmigrify, transmography; appar. a pseudo-Latinism with trans-, -ify

Related forms:
trans⋅mog⋅ri⋅fi⋅ca⋅tion, noun
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trans·mog·ri·fy   (trāns-mŏg'rə-fī', trānz-)   
tr.v.   trans·mog·ri·fied, trans·mog·ri·fy·ing, trans·mog·ri·fies
To change into a different shape or form, especially one that is fantastic or bizarre. See Synonyms at convert.

[Origin unknown.]
trans·mog'ri·fi·ca'tion (-fĭ-kā'shən) n.
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Transmogrification

Trans*mog`ri*fi*ca"tion\, n. The act of transmogrifying, or the state of being transmogrified; transformation. [Colloq.]

Clive, who wrote me about the transmogrification of our schoolfellow, an attorney's son. --Thackeray.
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