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- adjective Altered,
transformed , ormutated into a form that isgrotesque oramusing . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
transmogrify .
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Examples
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By May, the call transmogrified into a posthaste demand for any staff officer, and I was "volunteered" to enter what would be a well-appointed den of iniquity.
truckeratlas Diary Entry truckeratlas 2004
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First, we "transmogrified" the English M.rxist, H.M. Hyndman ( "educated," Gross informs us, "privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge"), into the "autodidact F.D. Hyndman."
Poor People Elman, Richard M. 1969
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Tortillas (” omelette” in Castillian, not sure how the word transmogrified into the staff of life of mesoamerica) are made from masa, a paste of ground maize.
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"'No no no no,' which she has kind of transmogrified into 'oh oh oh oh.'"
GotPoetry.com News 2010
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"transmogrified" to suit our conditions, and they made the city seem less like a drab expanse of desolate materialism.
A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900
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I hate to disappoint you but now that I can see again I have been able to brush that chip off my shoulder and now, in my new enlightened state, I have transmogrified and become that most dreaded of creatures - a righteous and unctuously nice creature with nothing controversial to say ever again - at least until Don Herradura arrives with his potion (as suggested by Rick with keen insight).
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As the over taker bears down on his quarry he is transmogrified into the tailgater.
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I hate to disappoint you but now that I can see again I have been able to brush that chip off my shoulder and now, in my new enlightened state, I have transmogrified and become that most dreaded of creatures - a righteous and unctuously nice creature with nothing controversial to say ever again - at least until Don Herradura arrives with his potion (as suggested by Rick with keen insight).
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Yet NATO, after forecasting the mass slaughter of innocent civilians, took swift action against Libya by enforcing a no-fly zone that transmogrified into a systemic bombing campaign.
Michael Hughes: UN Fiddles While Syria Burns Michael Hughes 2011
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Having grown fur and claws while in Tokyo earlier in the week, Lady Gaga has transmogrified back into something much more human -- and has the photo to prove it.
Lady Gaga On The Toilet For Amen Fashion On Tumblr (PHOTO) 2011
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