transmogrification

• The first thing I did when I got up this morning was look up the word transmogrification, because I awoke several times during the night wondering "What is transmogrification?" —  knitnut.net
• And if you were gold you'd not only be able to expand upon Rush's desire to keep the Country from an awful transmogrification, but do it in such a way so that it would prompt Rush to game up as well. —  The American Spectator
• That the transmogrification of my beautiful thoughts into a grossly imperfect prose is always the end result doesn't faze me: all novels are only a version - there is no Platonic ideal. —  The Guardian World News
• There's socio-political commentary, the post-war bomb paranoia, the generation gap in Japan, drug culture, body transmogrification, messianism, and other apocalyptic scenarios. —  DVD Times
• Aside from its most notorious and obvious manifestations - such as camp slang's transmogrification into the language of power and literature, the convergence of mafia and state; or the unbelievable degree of corruption - the rules of the zona are reproduced in the principles of social organization. —  Eurozine articles

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

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