MEANING
To transform something into a markedly different, often strange or comical form.
Use it for
comic transformations; bizarre bodily changes; magical mishapsLet the verb signal an oddly drastic change rather than a subtle alteration.
Words that belong together
- transmogrify into a frog
- transmogrified creature
- transmogrify a household object
On the page
The court magician managed to transmogrify a footstool into a goat.
By noon, the prince had been transmogrified into something with too many elbows.
She refused to transmogrify the tax collectors, however tempting the request.
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Word forms
- Base
- transmogrify / transmogrifies
- Past tense
- transmogrified
- Past participle
- transmogrified
- Present participle
- transmogrifying
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- transmogrify / transmogrifies
- Present continuous
- am/is/are transmogrifying
- Present perfect
- have/has transmogrified
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been transmogrifying
- Past
- transmogrified
- Past continuous
- was/were transmogrifying
- Past perfect
- had transmogrified
- Past perfect continuous
- had been transmogrifying
- Future
- will transmogrify / transmogrifies
- Future continuous
- will be transmogrifying
- Future perfect
- will have transmogrified
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been transmogrifying
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: fantasy. Usually playful or extravagant, not a neutral technical description of chemical change. Verb (base / third-person singular / past / past participle / -ing): transmogrify, transmogrifies, transmogrified, transmogrified, transmogrifying.
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