transmogrify

Evolution has similarly purloined existing features and modified them, using great thrift, for example, to transmogrify a piece of jaw into an ear or to transform a leg into a wing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

It’s likely in the middle of that process now, and could transmogrify itself into a star in as little as 200,000 years.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 24, 2023

At 66 I haven’t got a lot of time left before I transmogrify into a maguey.

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021

The concluding fire-and-brimstone fireworks of “Vingt Regards” transmogrify that turmoil of liberation into a transcendental visitation of bliss in the mystic beyond.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2020

P. S.—Be sure and see that the printer spells my name rightly, and don't transmogrify it into "TREEBOX," as a beast of a Treasury Clerk did the other day.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 by Various

Consequently, construction delays mounted, all transmogrified into change orders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Like other climate denial claims, the urban planning concept transmogrified in the depths of the internet.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 19, 2023

Coupled with marketable if less visible engineering advances, the campaign transmogrified the cookie-cutter low-cost automobile that Hitler commissioned as “the people’s car” in the 1930s into the American counterculture’s adorable “Love Bug.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023

“You experience someone who has put her past in a box and who through her immense talent has tried to reinvent herself and be saved and changed and transmogrified by the music.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2022

Fragments of food are transmogrified into cellular machinery.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The main specialties of gender-affirming care — endocrinology and plastic surgery — were founded in the early 1900s, not as a means of transmogrifying gender but rather as tools for reifying it.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2022

Adrien Merigeau’s fluidly surreal French dazzler “Genius Loci,” meanwhile, finds a solitary young woman’s restlessness about night in the city answered by the ceaseless transmogrifying of her surroundings, even herself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2021

One of its greatest delights is King’s extended cameo as an unlucky hillbilly transmogrifying into a mossy mutant, an appropriate metaphor for his fecund imagination.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 22, 2019

Guitar Hero reanimated the music video game genre when it launched in 2005, magically transmogrifying players into bona fide fret-shredding, tremolo-slapping Rock Gods.

From Time ● Aug. 23, 2016

Mrs. K. is an excellent hand at transmogrifying things, and in a large family such articles never come amiss.”

From Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life by Susanna Moodie