Definitions
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- verb to change one's
shape orform into another through oftenmagical means, normally applied only to living beings. - verb figuratively to
undergo a noticeablechange (in character for example), tometamorphosize
Etymologies
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Examples
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Selkies are able to shapeshift by shedding their seal skin, a risky endeavor because they must reapply the same skin in order to return to seal form.
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While an announcement is made on television, Sam the bartender and a werewolf shapeshift in the bar.
Archive 2009-05-01 nissa_amas_katoj 2009
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The story was set in a medieval Europeanish fantasy world in which, somehow, a love spell gone Horribly Wrong had caused a king to fall in love with a female dragon (yeah … I know), resulting in a child who could shapeshift from human to dragon form.
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Lycanthropes or werewolves are mythological humans that have the ability to shapeshift into wolves or anthropomorphic wolf-like creatures.
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I have another section devoted to vampires, ghosts, voodoo, natural history books on the animals that my characters shapeshift into, and various other useful topics.
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The short depicted Allman as believing he could really shapeshift on set, which gave the actor a chance to show his, ahem, birthday suit.
True Blood's Marshall Allman: "Team Tommy Is On the Rise" 2011
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The short depicted Allman as believing he could really shapeshift on set, which gave the actor a chance to show his, ahem, birthday suit.
True Blood's Marshall Allman: "Team Tommy Is On the Rise" 2011
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Now that the cat's out of the bag, and everybody knows how it is, for all those people that want to try to shapeshift, maybe they can learn a lesson.
True Blood's Marshall Allman: "Team Tommy Is On the Rise" 2011
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Now that the cat's out of the bag, and everybody knows how it is, for all those people that want to try to shapeshift, maybe they can learn a lesson.
True Blood's Marshall Allman: "Team Tommy Is On the Rise" 2011
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The Muroni could shapeshift in to cats, dogs, fleas, and spiders rather than bats or wolves.
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