transfigure
verb (used with object)
to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
has transfigured
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present perfectof transfigure (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The musical nails the first one but the second one is kind of underwritten—you don’t really understand how utterly and completely love has transfigured Valjean.
From Time ● Dec. 21, 2012
With audacity and ambition, Patchett has transfigured the story line of "Heart of Darkness" by setting it in the present day and turning both the seeker and the sought-after into women.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2011
Legend which has beautified his life has transfigured his death.
From Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Gustav Karpeles
He had left Oxford just before the beginning of that Catholic revival which has transfigured both the inner spirit and the outward aspect of the Church of England.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
Love could have transformed her in his sight as it has transfigured him in hers.
From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr
