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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To change into a different shape or form, especially one that is fantastic or bizarre. See Synonyms at convert.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To transform into some other person or thing, as by magic; convert or transform in general.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To completely alter the form of.
  2. v. To completely alter one's form.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To change into a different shape; to transform.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. change completely the nature or appearance of

Etymologies

  1. Origin unknown.

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  • valse Heh, probably Buffy for me. Or was that transmutation? Feb 8, 2007

  • vmarinelli Oh, excellent! Glad to know it wasn't just me. :) Feb 8, 2007

  • uselessness I'm embarrassed to say that I first learned this word on Neopets many years ago. I thought it was made-up, too... that site invents a lot of goofy fantastical words and phrases. Feb 6, 2007

  • seanahan This word does seem made up, and I can never seem to remember the definition, so every time I look it up I think, "Wow, what a great word!" Feb 6, 2007

  • vmarinelli For years, I thought this was a made-up word, because of the context in which I first encountered it: the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. Feb 6, 2007

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