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transfigure
[ trans-fig-yeror, especially British, -fig-er ]
verb (used with object)
- to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
Synonyms: ,
- to change so as to glorify or exalt.
transfigure
/ ٰæԲˈɪɡə /
verb
- to change or cause to change in appearance
- to become or cause to become more exalted
Derived Forms
- ٰԲˈھܰԳ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- ٰԲ·ھu·Գ noun
- ܲtԲ·ھu adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of transfigure1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of transfigure1
Example Sentences
The result was, if not a religious experience, then a spiritually transfiguring one.
His inauguration was a ritual of devotion, an arena where the less powerful — which means practically everybody — was transfigured by his presence.
At the instant the lunar disk slips entirely over the solar disk, the sun is abruptly transfigured into a foreign object.
Art transfigures life but, for every great work of art, there are casualties.
To transfigure a human villain into a demonic one, ostensibly the ultimate moral indictment, in practice amounts to a kind of cinematic vindication.
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