transfigure
verb (used with object)
to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
had transfigured
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past perfectof transfigure.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The debate itself between Clinton and Bernie Sanders was being held minutes away on campus, and somehow the notion of watching politicians discuss debt and health care had transfigured itself into must-see entertainment.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2016
The glad light of loyalty, which always had transfigured his visage when Link called to him, was woefully lacking.
From His Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
The crowd, fascinated by her beauty, which the tempest of passion had transfigured into terrible and compelling majesty, was completely under her control.
From The Second Generation by David Graham Phillips
A wonderful joy had transfigured this old man.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
In his love he had transfigured the friend, and the composer of “Parsifal” and the man of his imagination were not one.
From The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
