transfigureverb [ T ]
uk/trænsˈfɪɡ.ər/us/trænsˈfɪɡ.jɚ/formalto change the appearance of a person or thing very much, usually in a very positive and often spiritual way:
As she gazed down at the baby, her face was transfigured with tenderness.
The assassination somehow transfigured Kennedy into a modern American saint.
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Changing
- a new broom sweeps clean idiom
- about-turn
- alter
- alternate
- alternation
- bastardize
- convert
- move on
- move the goalposts idiom
- move with the times idiom
- new
- new broom
- onto
- reverse
- swing
- transform
- transitional
- transmogrify
- transmute
- turn (sb/sth) into sb/sth
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transfiguration
noun [ U ] uk/ˌtræns.fɪ.ɡərˈeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌtræns.fɪɡ.jəˈreɪ.ʃən/