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

Which leaves open the question of whether New York state prosecutors can transmogrify this conduct into a state crime.

From Washington Post • Apr. 4, 2023

Iota by iota, debris was thought to transmogrify into flies.

From New York Times • May 28, 2021

P. S.—Be sure and see that the printer spells my name rightly, and don't transmogrify it into "TREEBOX," as a beast of a Treasury Clerk did the other day.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 by Various