Alter vs Transmogrify - What's the difference?
alter | transmogrify |
To change the form or structure of.
* Bible, Psalms lxxxix. 34
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
To become different.
To tailor clothes to make them fit.
To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
(obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.
To completely alter the form of.
To completely alter one's form.
As verbs the difference between alter and transmogrify
is that alter is to change the form or structure of while transmogrify is to completely alter the form of.alter
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Alternative forms
* altre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
- No power in Venice can alter a decree.
- It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
- (Milton)
