transfigure
verb (used with object)
to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
have transfigured
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present perfectof transfigure.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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Migrating from music to acting, a handful of talents such as Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez and Dwight Yoakam have transfigured their medium from melody to melodrama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2024
In the years since her death, accounts of Ms. Senesh’s ordeal and the publication of her diaries and poetry have transfigured her into a sterling figure of Jewish resistance.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2011
Celebrated or cursed, the Interstates still evoke sublime feelings about the technological forces that, over five decades, have transfigured American lives.
From Time Magazine Archive
He appeared to have transfigured himself— but badly.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
But, however much she may have transfigured it in description, in person and experience she has shown it in the most beautiful form of truth of which it is susceptible.
From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger
