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Transmogrify

verb
1.
Change completely the nature or appearance of.  Synonyms: metamorphose, transfigure.  "The treatment and diet transfigured her into a beautiful young woman" , "Jesus was transfigured after his resurrection"





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"Transmogrify" Quotes from Famous Books



... an English wife, knew something of England, and a good deal of English literature. But, regardless of his own historical penchants and of the moral of this very book—that Sentiment must be kept under the control of Reason—he was pleased to transmogrify Chatterton's compassionate Holborn landlady into a certain Kitty Bell—a pastry-shop keeper close to the Houses of Parliament, who is very beautiful except that she has the inevitable "large feet" (let us hope that M. le Comte ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury
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Words linked to "Transmogrify" :   transmogrification, change by reversal, reverse, turn


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