transfigure
verb (used with object)
to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
transfigured
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past participleof transfigure.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof transfigure.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
transfigureverb (used with object)to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
Example Sentences
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When his parents rejected offers to disinter and return his remains—declaring their son could have no better resting place than among his black troops—Shaw was transfigured from soldier to symbol, celebrated by poets and artists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
The martyred Monica has literally been transfigured into a saint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
His inauguration was a ritual of devotion, an arena where the less powerful — which means practically everybody — was transfigured by his presence.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2025
The following year, he changed his own name to Akhenaten, meaning “the transfigured spirit of the solar orb,” and moved himself and his entire family to the new city.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
The big mesa is to this day regarded as an apu, an ancient spirit transfigured into rock.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
