| 单词 | transmogrify |
| 释义 | transmogrify (once / 38880 pages) v You've seen something transmogrify, or transform completely, if you've ever watched the process of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. Use the verb transmogrify when a person or thing changes in a way that surprises you. A fairy tale frog transmogrifies into a prince in one well-known story, and a tomboy might be said to transmogrify when she puts on a frilly dress to be a flower girl in a wedding. The origin of transmogrify isn't clear, although one theory is that it was a mistake made long ago, when someone meant to say transmigrate, or "pass into another body after death." WORD FAMILYtransmogrify: transmogrification, transmogrified, transmogrifies, transmogrifying+/transmogrification: transmogrifications USAGE EXAMPLESLasky changes her unwieldy Teutonic birth name, and suddenly she is transmogrified by this Hollywood god into Mary Astor. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) A fellow novelist once said of Bainbridge: “She transmogrifies events in her own way.” Washington Post(Nov 08, 2016) As both a psychiatric patient and a professor of clinical psychology, I was saddened to see painful lived experiences transmogrified into spooky entertainment. New York Times(Oct 26, 2016) v change completely the nature or appearance of Syn|Hyper metamorphose, transfigure change by reversal, reverse, turn change to the contrary |
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