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Discover LudwigThe word "shape-shifter" is correct and used in written English
You can use it when you want to refer to a person or creature that has the ability to change its physical form. For example: "The mysterious stranger at the bar was rumored to be a shape-shifter."
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shape-shifter
noun
A person or other being capable of changing their physical form
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A shape-shifter on Capitol Hill!
She's less shape-shifter than shape-tweaker.
Alain Delon plays the social-climbing shape-shifter.
Though 13, Ostrenga was a phenomenally good shape-shifter.
Randy old goat Picasso was a shape-shifter and trickster.
Denmark's national spirit is a wily shape-shifter.
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He is also a shape shifter.
Brittain herself is something of a shape shifter.
"She was a real shape shifter," Ms. Kaplan said.
His last book in the series, "The Shape Shifter," was published by HarperCollins in 2006.
The Adagio is a shape shifter, widely appropriated in film and television.
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