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
I have had a hard life, and this has transfigured it.
From The History of David Grieve by Mrs. Humphry Ward
His joy in this inner harmony has transfigured the object and made it beautiful.
From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Carleton Eldredge Noyes
It has gone into the heart and through the heart, it has got hold of the will and it has transfigured the spirit and the whole being.
From Parent and Child Volume III., Child Study and Training by Mosiah Hall
