transmogrifying

verb

present participle of transmogrify
as in mutating

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transmogrifying
  1. mutating
  2. deforming
  3. distorting
  4. disfiguring
  5. redefining
  6. refashioning
  7. redesigning
  8. remodeling
Verb
  • Meanwhile, Spider-Man is struggling with his mutating powers — and the fact that his girlfriend MJ (Zendaya) and best friend Ned (Jacob Batalon) are making memories at MIT with zero recollection of their former pal.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Diversity and reinvention Just as American culture is continuously mutating, American music is constantly being reinvented.
    — Ted Olson, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
Definition of mutating
Verb
  • How are prices set, and how do those prices avoid reproducing the procedural bias already deforming American medicine?
    — Sachin H. Jain, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • When oil wells are shut in, the pressure underground can become imbalanced, deforming the underlying structure.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 27 May 2026
Definition of deforming
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  • In November 2020, Lupe was in the final weeks of her pregnancy when dark spots began distorting her vision.
    — Carina Heckert, The Conversation, 30 July 2026
  • The least costly and least distorting way to solve the entire financing gap is to extend Social Security's base beyond paychecks to capital income -- capital gains, dividends, interest and pass-through business income.
    — Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of distorting
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  • Leprosy, which can be traced back at least 4,000 years, can be highly visible and disfiguring, with the primary symptoms including changes to the skin and nervous system that can take upward of 20 years to develop after exposure.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 29 July 2026
  • The flames claimed the girls as collateral, scarring both of them but disfiguring Anaia, who worked the hardest to save Ruby.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Definition of disfiguring
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  • At a moment when the industry is redefining its future, inclusion can be part of the solution, not a casualty of contraction.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Chinese companies and institutions have been active in redefining how open-source technology is being developed, licensed and deployed.
    — Christopher K. Tong, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of redefining
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  • Kingsoft Cloud is refashioning itself into an artificial intelligence cloud player — a move that should drive its shares higher, according to Morgan Stanley.
    — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 7 July 2026
  • But weathering the tensions and refashioning the alliance for the future will require more than billion-dollar deals and verbal diplomacy.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2026
Definition of refashioning
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  • In practice, that mindset has meant redesigning incentive models, reallocating budget and building the measurement infrastructure needed to demonstrate commercial impact.
    — Rosie Guest, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Future satellites could replace onboard processors with newer chips from different suppliers without redesigning the entire spacecraft.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of redesigning
Verb
  • Most give me six answers, with goals like building a business, training for a marathon, starting a fund or remodeling a house.
    — Daniel Ramsey, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Johnson had the property built in 2004, remodeling it in 2014, per WWD.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of remodeling
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