To change something into a completely different form — and the change is big, strange, and often funny. If a normal word for 'change' feels too calm for what happened, this is the word people reach for. A kitchen table gets transmogrified into a spaceship in a child's game; a shy student gets transmogrified into a confident speaker over one summer; a small argument gets transmogrified into a family war. The important thing is the tone. This word is almost always a joke, or at least a wink. It is a long, heavy, important-sounding word being used for something that does not deserve such a long word, and that mismatch IS the humour. Writers use it, comedians use it, teachers use it when they want a class to smile. Nobody uses it in a serious scientific report about change — there they would say 'transform'. It often carries the feeling of magic, even when no magic is involved: the change is so complete that you cannot see how you got from the first thing to the second. Usually passive or with an object: 'X was transmogrified into Y', 'she transmogrified the old sofa into a bed'. It is not a common word. Most English speakers know it but might use it once a year. Knowing it is a nice thing; using it too often sounds like you are showing off.

（詼諧地）徹底變形、大變樣，像被施了魔法一樣變成另一個東西。語氣通常是開玩笑的，不是正式用語。