transfigure
verb (used with object)
to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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Only sat and watched with her, the gorgeous colors of the sunset that were transfiguring the gray old mountain.
From Mary Ware's Promised Land by John Goss