transmogrifier
Fantastical alteration machine
A transmogrifier is a device or agent that transforms something dramatically, often in a bizarre or magical way.
The word gained popular currency from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, where a cardboard box served as an imaginary transmogrifier capable of turning the boy into animals or objects: Step into the transmogrifier and become a tiger.
Outside such playful contexts, it describes any means of radical transformation.
Rigid paper container
- CalvinProtestant Reformation leader
- HobbesEnglish political philosopher
- comic stripSerialized newspaper cartoon panels
- duplicatorReproduction apparatus
Bill Watterson · invention · imagination · contraption · gadget · gizmo · makeshift · homemade
Constructed tool or machine
- machinePower-driven working device
- ray gunFictional beam-emitting weapon
- teleporterInstant location-shifting machine
- beamStructural support member
zap · apparatus · mechanism · portal · chamber · invention · contraption · technology
Profound biological restructuring
- transmutationComplete change of form
- shapeshiftingTransforming into other beings
- mutationPermanent DNA alteration
- conversionAct of changing states
alteration · morphing · transfiguration · changeling · reconfiguration · reshaping · evolution · transubstantiation
Thin ceremonial stick
- sorceryPractice of dark magic
- enchantmentMagical influence over someone
- spellArrange letters correctly
- incantationSpoken magical formula
conjuration · wizardry · charm · hex · bewitchment · arcane · ritual · necromancy
cardboard box
Rigid paper container
- CalvinProtestant Reformation leader
- HobbesEnglish political philosopher
- comic stripSerialized newspaper cartoon panels
Bill Watterson · duplicator · invention · imagination · contraption · gadget · gizmo · makeshift · homemade · childhood
device
Constructed tool or machine
- machinePower-driven working device
- ray gunFictional beam-emitting weapon
- teleporterInstant location-shifting machine
beam · zap · apparatus · mechanism · portal · chamber · invention · contraption · technology · sci-fi
metamorphosis
Profound biological restructuring
- transmutationComplete change of form
- shapeshiftingTransforming into other beings
- mutationPermanent DNA alteration
conversion · alteration · morphing · transfiguration · changeling · reconfiguration · reshaping · evolution · transubstantiation · anamorphosis
wand
Thin ceremonial stick
- sorceryPractice of dark magic
- enchantmentMagical influence over someone
- spellArrange letters correctly
incantation · conjuration · wizardry · charm · hex · bewitchment · arcane · ritual · necromancy · illusion
transmogrifiertweaker
Methamphetamine abuser
adjuster · calibrator · refiner · polisher · editor
transmogrifierpreserver
One that maintains or saves
conservator · maintainer · stabilizer · protector · restorer