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Definition of "transfigure" [trans•fig•ure]

  • To alter the outward appearance of; transform. See Synonyms at convert. (verb-transitive)
  • To exalt or glorify. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "transfigure" in a sentence
  • "The word transfigure means, to change the appearance or form."
  • "Parris describes this as music's power to "transfigure": "I am already forgetting what Gordon Brown said to his conference in Bournemouth this week."
  • "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."