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Definition of transfigure in English: transfigureverb ˌtranzˈfɪɡəˌtrɑːnsˈfɪɡəˌtranzˈfɪɡəˌtransˈfɪɡəˌtræn(t)sˈfɪɡ(j)ər [with object]Transform into something more beautiful or elevated. the world is made luminous and is transfigured Example sentencesExamples - From today, this small spa town in County Clare is going to be transfigured.
- Even pain is transfigured into a sort of pleasure which can be savoured aesthetically.
- If he had lived in our era, he would probably be a blogger, but instead his multivolume book transfigures his encounters with the arts and artists.
- Yoga, he observes, uses up and transfigures such basic drives as hunger, sex and breathing; but it suspends or absorbs activities like thought, emotion and will.
- William Blake produced a series of visionary paintings about mankind transfigured by revolution and a series of graphic illustrations to highlight the plight of black slaves tortured in Surinam.
- But what is more impressive is the way the show transfigures ordinary gestures.
- Within a very short period, humanity has no doubt transfigured the face of the earth by obliterating space and time through the revolution in communications and urbanisation of the world.
- The space ship is cluttered with aging technology and tattered furniture - this is not the uniformly pristine and transfigured world of the typical sci-fi flick.
- The contemporary poets I most admire are similarly subtle in the ways in which they use language to transfigure our perception of the natural world.
- People have imaginatively transfigured their experiences of real life into visions of the unknown world.
- Technology or mechanistic craft adjusts to the functions of everyday life; art elevates and transfigures the everyday into a transcendent state.
- It becomes ever more nuancé, ever more modern, and the result is that it can no longer depict a tenement block or a refuse heap without transfiguring it.
- Its ten plain lines show how accident can be transfigured by inspiration.
- It's still early in the morning; the air is cool and exhilarating, and the low sun softens the landscape and transfigures the dour colours of the hills.
- A young girl, intent on her guitar-playing, with a sun-reddened face and wind-tangled, light-shot hair, is transfigured by her own music.
- Back out on the hill, they were ecstatic, their faces transfigured by huge, permanent smiles.
- The eye is a crystal ball, where the pain suffered is transfigured into pleasure received.
- For the snow-making industry, the real thing, falling silently from the sky in huge crystals and transfiguring the landscape, is so unreliable it is almost a nuisance.
- Meanwhile, a residential construction and remodeling boom promises to transfigure the look of the place still further.
- As soon as he began to play, the experience of the music was transfigured.
Synonyms transform, change, alter, convert, metamorphose, vary, modify, transmute, mutate rearrange, reshape, remodel, redo, reconstruct, recast, rebuild, reorganize, renew, revolutionize humorous transmogrify
Origin Middle English: from Old French transfigurer or Latin transfigurare, from trans- 'across' + figura 'figure'. Rhymes chigger, configure, figure, Frigga, jigger, ligger, rigger, rigor, rigour, snigger, swigger, trigger, vigour (US vigor) Definition of transfigure in US English: transfigureverbˌtræn(t)sˈfɪɡ(j)ərˌtran(t)sˈfiɡ(y)ər [with object]usually be transfiguredTransform into something more beautiful or elevated. the world is made luminous and is transfigured Example sentencesExamples - Yoga, he observes, uses up and transfigures such basic drives as hunger, sex and breathing; but it suspends or absorbs activities like thought, emotion and will.
- As soon as he began to play, the experience of the music was transfigured.
- Within a very short period, humanity has no doubt transfigured the face of the earth by obliterating space and time through the revolution in communications and urbanisation of the world.
- Meanwhile, a residential construction and remodeling boom promises to transfigure the look of the place still further.
- A young girl, intent on her guitar-playing, with a sun-reddened face and wind-tangled, light-shot hair, is transfigured by her own music.
- Even pain is transfigured into a sort of pleasure which can be savoured aesthetically.
- For the snow-making industry, the real thing, falling silently from the sky in huge crystals and transfiguring the landscape, is so unreliable it is almost a nuisance.
- It's still early in the morning; the air is cool and exhilarating, and the low sun softens the landscape and transfigures the dour colours of the hills.
- Back out on the hill, they were ecstatic, their faces transfigured by huge, permanent smiles.
- The eye is a crystal ball, where the pain suffered is transfigured into pleasure received.
- Technology or mechanistic craft adjusts to the functions of everyday life; art elevates and transfigures the everyday into a transcendent state.
- It becomes ever more nuancé, ever more modern, and the result is that it can no longer depict a tenement block or a refuse heap without transfiguring it.
- From today, this small spa town in County Clare is going to be transfigured.
- William Blake produced a series of visionary paintings about mankind transfigured by revolution and a series of graphic illustrations to highlight the plight of black slaves tortured in Surinam.
- If he had lived in our era, he would probably be a blogger, but instead his multivolume book transfigures his encounters with the arts and artists.
- The contemporary poets I most admire are similarly subtle in the ways in which they use language to transfigure our perception of the natural world.
- But what is more impressive is the way the show transfigures ordinary gestures.
- Its ten plain lines show how accident can be transfigured by inspiration.
- People have imaginatively transfigured their experiences of real life into visions of the unknown world.
- The space ship is cluttered with aging technology and tattered furniture - this is not the uniformly pristine and transfigured world of the typical sci-fi flick.
Synonyms transform, change, alter, convert, metamorphose, vary, modify, transmute, mutate
Origin Middle English: from Old French transfigurer or Latin transfigurare, from trans- ‘across’ + figura ‘figure’. |