transmogrify
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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
Jonathan was for an instant paralysed by our impudence; but just as we were getting before the wind, he yawed, and let drive his whole broadside; and fearfully did it transmogrify us.
From Tom Cringle's Log by Scott, Michael
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