transmogrify
[ trans-mog-ruh-fahy, tranz- ]
/ trænsˈmɒg rəˌfaɪ, trænz- /
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
OTHER WORDS FROM transmogrify
trans·mog·ri·fi·ca·tion, nounWords nearby transmogrify
transmittal,
transmittance,
transmittancy,
transmitter,
transmittivity,
transmogrify,
transmontane,
transmundane,
transmural,
transmutation,
transmute
Example sentences from the Web for transmogrification
It was “currently under cannibalization and transmogrification into a very strange movie,” he said then, and that was that.
Well, I'm blowed, here's a transmogrification; he's consolidified himself into a blessed brick—my eye, here's a curiosity.
Varney the Vampire |Thomas Preskett PrestThen the dim, flickering light and the incense of the tobacco accomplished their transmogrification.
The Bachelors |William Dana Orcutt
British Dictionary definitions for transmogrification
transmogrify
/ (trænzˈmɒɡrɪˌfaɪ) /
verb -fies, -fying or -fied
(tr) jocular
to change or transform into a different shape, esp a grotesque or bizarre one
Derived forms of transmogrify
transmogrification, nounWord Origin for transmogrify
C17: of unknown origin