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transfigure

[trans-fig-yer, -fig-er]

verb (used with object)

transfigured, transfiguring 
  1. to change in outward form or appearance; transform.

    Synonyms: ,
  2. to change so as to glorify or exalt.



transfigure

/ ٰæԲˈɪɡə /

verb

  1. to change or cause to change in appearance

  2. to become or cause to become more exalted

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • transfigurement noun
  • untransfigured adjective
  • ٰԲˈھܰ𳾱Գ noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of transfigure1

1250–1300; Middle English transfiguren < Latin ٰԲھū to change in shape. See trans-, figure
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Word History and Origins

Origin of transfigure1

C13: from Latin ٰԲھū , from trans- + ھū appearance
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Example Sentences

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The result was, if not a religious experience, then a spiritually transfiguring one.

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His inauguration was a ritual of devotion, an arena where the less powerful — which means practically everybody — was transfigured by his presence.

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At the instant the lunar disk slips entirely over the solar disk, the sun is abruptly transfigured into a foreign object.

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Art transfigures life but, for every great work of art, there are casualties.

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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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