transfigure
verb (used with object)
to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
transfigures
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present tense formof transfigure (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Art transfigures life but, for every great work of art, there are casualties.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
What radiates from Eika’s gritty magical realism is ambient but potent: a grief so profound that it transfigures, a loneliness so abject that it fractures perception.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2021
All great art is consoling because it transfigures our ordinary feelings into something bigger.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2016
The show, which is having its world premiere here at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, boldly transfigures the whimsical charms of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's movie into sparkling musical comedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2015
At one time the man is completely hidden by the myth and becomes absolutely legendary; again, he assumes only an aureole that transfigures him.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron
