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  • noun mythology, science fiction, fantasy a person or other being capable of changing their physical form

Etymologies

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From shape + shifter.

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Examples

  • He belongs, like Borges and a handful of others, to that sacred sect of storytellers (one part sorcerer, one part shaman, one part shape-shifter, one part fabulist) that seem to write in the invisible ink of dream.

    italo calvino | if on a winter’s night a traveler « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • While Washington hot spots come and go, Bajaj's endurance 21 years after opening the Bombay Club, the first of his restaurants, derives in part from his ability to be a shape-shifter.

    Restaurateur Ashok Bajaj: Potentate of the D.C. plate Manuel Roig-Franzia 2011

  • While Sam (played by New Orleans-born Sam Trammel), may not be a vampire, he is a shape-shifter with a mysterious past and a penchant for saving Sookie.

    The Many Loves Of Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood, Season 3) | myFiveBest 2010

  • Mechanic and shape-shifter Mercy Thompson and her beau a werewolf encounter new threats.

    BOOK WORLD - March 6, 2011 2011

  • At first I thought that I might have been hallucinating—you know, some kind of after-effect from the bite I got from that shape-shifter— or that your craziness was contagious.

    Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011

  • “Frigg, Queen of the Aesir, wife of Odin the shape-shifter, look down from Asgard, where you sit before your wheel in Fensalir spinning golden thread.”

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • He belongs, like Borges and a handful of others, to that sacred sect of storytellers (one part sorcerer, one part shaman, one part shape-shifter, one part fabulist) that seem to write in the invisible ink of dream.

    August « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • Aralorn is a shape-shifter and a spy, sent to determine what is going on with a powerful sorcerer, whose charisma blinds nearly everyone in the surrounding kingdoms to his true (and horrific) nature.

    2009 February « Items of Interest 2009

  • Each thought a slippery trickster, a shape-shifter.

    Happy Hour JP Reese 2011

  • “I thought you said your rabbit was all better after that shape-shifter attack.”

    Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011

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