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shapeshifters

shapeshifters is the plural of shapeshifter.

Meaning of shapeshifter

Noun

shapeshifter (plural shapeshifters)

  1. A person or creature capable of changing their appearance or form at will.
    • The shapeshifter Lisa Bowalk, unable to shed the guise of a black panther, had gone onto the plain as a prisoner but was not now to be found among the dead above or the Captured down below.2000, Glen Cook, Water Sleeps
  2. (figuratively) A person who is inconsistent and elusive.
    • She was an alcoholic, very chageable, very deceptive. A shapeshifter. You never knew where you stood with her, […]2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 268

Questions about shapeshifters

What is shapeshifters the plural of?
Shapeshifters is the plural of shapeshifter.

Words near shapeshifters in the dictionary

  1. shapes up
  2. shapes up or ships out
  3. shapeshift
  4. shapeshifted
  5. shapeshifter
  6. shapeshifters
  7. shapeshifting
  8. shapeshiftings
  9. shapeshifts
  10. shapest
  11. shapester

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