What is "transmogrify"

Usage examples of "transmogrify".

The steel door closes behind him and he hears the piano become a pie-anny as schmaltz transmogrifies to boogie.

She had dreamed about him the night before, rolling, clanking away from her down a straight old macadam road, out in the country, fields and hills in metallic cloudlight toward the end of the day, aware of exactly how many hours and minutes to dark, how many foot-candles left in the sky, bringing behind him like ducklings a line of lamps, generators, and beam projectors each on its little trailer rig, heading for his next job, the next carnival or auto lot, still wanting nothing but the deadly amps transmogrified to light, the great white-hot death-cold spill and flood and thrust, wherever he had to go, on whatever terms he had to take, to get to keep doing it.

His marriage had burned out, had gradually transmogrified from its previously Keatsian fire into a remote and cranky elegance.

But the irrelevant fact that Ellis talked to Bush quickly transmogrified into the baseless claim that Ellis had, in fact, given Bush proprietary VNS information.

The move he made this time was straight out of Jekyll and Hyde -- the Brown Buffalo suddenly transmogrified into the form of a rabid hyena.

Before anyone dared to dig that deep the stuff would be transmogrified into historical artifacts by the sheer passage of time.

Thus was he transmogrified from a fish peddler into a known criminal before he and Sacco were tried for murder.

I am benighted, bewildered, taken with art-magic, transmuted, TRANSMOGRIFIED, not myself nor yet another, but, as they say in Mississippi, 'a sort of betweenity.

In the corner of this lab stood an evolved version of a copy machine that could take just about any kind of recorded information and transmogrify it into something else.

The way we envision this new sort of senso-symphony, the artists--the mathists, that is--will transmogrify basic structures of thought, such as Euclidean conceptual edifices, or transfinite set theory fabrications.

But we could not have daemons transmogrifying themselves into sorceresses now could we?

Time was ticking away, time during which the daemon Horolaggia was spinning its web around her, transmogrifying her.

She conjured First-Gate Correspondence, transmogrifying the entire vacuum.

Somewhere deep within the building, there was a rhythmic pounding sound, more like a human heart than anything mechanical, and Kasyx was aware that the building was gradually transmogrifying into a giant body.

Again the condensations of gas spun their slow gravitational pirouettes, slowly transmogrifying gas cloud into star.