transfigure
IPA: trænsfˈɪgjɝ
verb
- (transitive) To transform the outward appearance of; to convert into a different form, state or substance.
- (transitive) To glorify or exalt.
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Examples of "transfigure" in Sentences
- How often does he transfigure
- He was transfigured into a snake.
- The dog was transfigured into an owl.
- Both are transfigured through Christ.
- He has an ability to transfigure himself.
- They transfigure into an avatar of Jonathan.
- He can transfigure from a dragon to human like form.
- The Oscars tend to award actors who transfigure themselves.
- The word transfigure means, to change the appearance or form.
- In the 19th and 20th century, the patriotic historiography transfigured him.
- Or, more, a crusade — to invent a new culture for quasi-public schools and transfigure inner-city education in New York.
- Ben also confessed to her that he tried for years to "pray the gay away," but he's done trying to transfigure himself now.
- Parris describes this as music's power to "transfigure": "I am already forgetting what Gordon Brown said to his conference in Bournemouth this week.
- The answer may still be no, but either way the duo of John Flansburgh and John Linnell have come to own their quirks and transfigure them into a lasting kind of cool.
- Ai spent those same years scavenging Beijing's back alleys and antique shops for Silk Road materials he could transfigure into art, like Marcel Duchamp once did with a urinal or Andy Warhol did with a soup can.
- Above all, that meant the end of the idea of the artist as shaman, a person able to transform and transfigure, who could conjure one thing, a work of art, out of another, its raw materials and constituent parts.
- However, within the spiritual experience, we can know something for a MOMENT and that MOMENT is all it takes to transfigure our life forever, to alter our relationship to everything, and change us in the deepest sanctum of our being.