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transfigure

verb

trans·​fig·​ure tran(t)s-ˈfi-gyər How to pronounce transfigure (audio)
 especially British  -ˈfi-gə
transfigured; transfiguring

transitive verb

: to give a new and typically exalted or spiritual appearance to : transform outwardly and usually for the better

Synonyms

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transform, metamorphose, transmute, convert, transmogrify, transfigure mean to change a thing into a different thing.

transform implies a major change in form, nature, or function.

transformed a small company into a corporate giant

metamorphose suggests an abrupt or startling change induced by or as if by magic or a supernatural power.

awkward girls metamorphosed into graceful ballerinas

transmute implies transforming into a higher element or thing.

attempted to transmute lead into gold

convert implies a change fitting something for a new or different use or function.

converted the study into a nursery

transmogrify suggests a strange or preposterous metamorphosis.

a story in which a frog is transmogrified into a prince

transfigure implies a change that exalts or glorifies.

joy transfigured her face

Example Sentences

Her face seemed transfigured by happiness. married life has seemingly transfigured his formerly aimless existence
Recent Examples on the Web Their sorcery can transfigure people and things, bestow good or bad luck, heal or hurt — or even offer protection from danger. New York Times, 10 Nov. 2021 Klagsbrun is known for paintings that flowingly interpret classical myths in which women transfigure into trees or flowers. Washington Post, 7 May 2021 For many, these numbers transfigured Covid-19 from something that might be a problem, to a near inevitability. C. Brandon Ogbunu, Wired, 18 Mar. 2020 Always the black angel asleep on my lips, alwaysThe dove’s moan in the mimosa tree,The blue faces of the twice transfiguredclosing their stone eyes. Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019 Discovering the particular genre conventions that Obreht has chosen to transfigure or to uphold soon becomes central to the novel’s propulsive appeal. Francisco Cantú, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019 Its story, about a fiery Scottish lass whose desire to fight and hunt like her father inadvertently leads her mother to be cursed and transfigured into a bear, is as interesting as the studio’s best. Allegra Frank, Vox, 27 June 2019 The slaughter transfigured North America's waterways. Ben Goldfarb, Science | AAAS, 7 June 2018 Yet unlike other Chameleon programs, this one took as its thematic subject the very idea of a historical sense, of composers turning to older vessels, filling them with new wine, and transfiguring them altogether in the process. Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2018 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English, from Anglo-French transfigurer, from Latin transfigurare, from trans- + figurare to shape, fashion, from figura figure

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of transfigure was in the 14th century

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