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trans·mog·ri·fy    Audio Help   [trans-mog-ruh-fahy, tranz-] Pronunciation Key
–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]

trans·mog·ri·fi·ca·tion, noun
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trans·mog·ri·fy    Audio Help   (trāns-mŏg'rə-fī', trānz-)  Pronunciation Key 
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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transmogrify 
"to change completely," 1656, apparently a perversion of transmigure, from transmigrate, perhaps influenced by modify.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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transmogrify

verb
change completely the nature or appearance of; "In Kafka's story, a person metamorphoses into a bug"; "The treatment and diet transfigured her into a beautiful young woman"; "Jesus was transfigured after his resurrection" [syn: metamorphose

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Transmogrify

Trans*mog"ri*fy\, v. t. [A humorous coinage.] To change into a different shape; to transform. [Colloq.] --Fielding.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

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