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- verb Present participle of
shapeshift .
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Examples
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Sorcerers use their powers for everything from changing their physical form (a practice known as shapeshifting) to curing warts, becoming invisible, banishing demons, channelling positive energy or summoning the dead [see necromancy below].
Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010
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Max’s vampires meanwhile, are of the more generic variety, but he does institute a couple of cool twists like vampirisim being a retrovirus “that alters the DNA of the host” so they may develop certain ‘talents’ such as shapeshifting, reading people’s thoughts, being granted visions of the future, and so on.
"Night Runner" by Max Turner (Mini-Review by Robert Thompson) Liviu 2009
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Max’s vampires meanwhile, are of the more generic variety, but he does institute a couple of cool twists like vampirisim being a retrovirus “that alters the DNA of the host” so they may develop certain ‘talents’ such as shapeshifting, reading people’s thoughts, being granted visions of the future, and so on.
Archive 2009-08-01 Liviu 2009
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Sam is called out of town when he learns that his mother has been shot by her husband over the shapeshifting thing; Sookie is put in charge of the bar while he's gone.
Archive 2009-05-01 nissa_amas_katoj 2009
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Sam is called out of town when he learns that his mother has been shot by her husband over the shapeshifting thing; Sookie is put in charge of the bar while he's gone.
Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris nissa_amas_katoj 2009
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Although the shapeshifting and mindreading could come in handy!
VAMPIRES IN POP CULTURE | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2010
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Uplift caused by intervention at whatever level gene therapy, brain wiring, grafts cannot bring about coordinated changes across the organism unless we enter the fantasy domain of shapeshifting.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: "Are We Not (as Good as) Men?" Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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Meanwhile, over in the land of Blue Camera Filters and Frowny Faces, Peter Petrelli and the shapeshifting body that currently houses the mental imprints of his brother and his worst enemy had a surprise visitor.
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If that's not enough, there's also a buddy team consisting of a telepathic Russian space dog and a gun-toting raccoon, cool shapeshifting battlearmor, and a secret headquarters inside the decapitated head of a Celestial.
MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 1) 2009
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I like the idea that voice is tied heavily to the story you are telling and that voice is an evolving, shapeshifting thing.
treeseed commented on the word shapeshifting
Shapeshifting is a common theme in folklore, as well as in science fiction and fantasy. In its broadest sense, it is a change in the physical form or shape of a person or animal. Shapeshifting involves physical changes such as alterations of age, gender, race, or general appearance or changes between human form and that of an animal, plant, or inanimate object.
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January 27, 2008
yarb commented on the word shapeshifting
Why might you shapeshift into the form of an inanimate object? And how do I know my stapler isn't a shapeshifter?
January 29, 2008
treeseed commented on the word shapeshifting
Your stapler is a shapeshifter. Why do you think they call it Swingline...that's just insider shapeshifter vernacular.
January 29, 2008