trans·mog·ri·fy

(trăns-mŏg′rə-fī′, trănz-)

v. trans·mog·ri·fied, trans·mog·ri·fy·ing, trans·mog·ri·fies

v. tr.

To change thoroughly, as into a different shape or form. See Synonyms at convert.

v. intr.

To be thoroughly changed: "He couldn't figure out why his simple desires for competence and order so often seemed to transmogrify into anger" (Chris Bohjalian).

[Origin unknown.]

trans·mog′ri·fi·ca′tion (-fĭ-kā′shən) n.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

transmogrification

the process of complete and usually extreme or grotesque change from one state or form to another.

transmogrification

noun

The process or result of changing from one appearance, state, or phase to another:

change, changeover, conversion, metamorphosis, mutation, shift, transfiguration, transformation, translation, transmutation, transubstantiation.

Translations

transmogrification

n (hum) → wunderbare Wandlung (hum)

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