transfigure
verb (used with object)
to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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But, as the linguist Gretchen McCulloch reveals in “Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language,” her effervescent study of how the digital world is transfiguring English, informal writing is relatively new.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 26, 2019