shapeshifting

shapeshifting is the present participle and gerund of shapeshift.

Meaning of shapeshift

shapeshift (third-person singular simple present shapeshifts, present participle shapeshifting, simple past and past participle shapeshifted)

(intransitive) To change one's shape or form (into another) through often magical means, normally applied only to living beings.
- For it was by shape-shifting and magic art, as poets tell, that Paris first beguiled Fair Helen.1891, H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang, The World's Desire, volume II, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, page 13
(figuratively, intransitive) To undergo a noticeable change (in character for example), to metamorphosize.
- While Chelsea Wolfe has often shapeshifted in terms of how she presents her music, one thing remains constant: her big mood.2019, Adam Turner-Heffer, Chelsea Wolfe: Birth of Violence review, The Skinny, September 2019, page 57

shapeshifting (countable and uncountable, plural shapeshiftings)

A change in shape; a transformation.
- We have to prepare ourselves, make shapeshiftings in consciousness to get there. Then we are the Grail as the prepared, receptive space waiting for the Christ Light.2011, Richard Leviton, Hierophantic Landscapes, page 388

plural	shapeshiftings

What does shapeshifting mean?: Shapeshifting means a change in shape; a transformation.
What is shapeshifting the present participle and gerund of?: Shapeshifting is the present participle and gerund of shapeshift.
What part of speech is shapeshifting?: Shapeshifting is a noun.
What is the plural of shapeshifting?: The plural of shapeshifting is shapeshiftings.

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