What is another word for transfigure?

Pronunciation: [tɹansfˈɪɡə] (IPA)

Transfigure refers to transforming something into another form or shape, often using magical or supernatural means. There are several synonyms that convey a similar idea, such as metamorphose, which means transforming or changing completely. Another synonym is transmute, which also means transforming or changing, but in a more gradual or subtle way. The word transmogrify means to transform in a bizarre or unexpected way, while transubstantiate refers to transforming something into a different essence or substance. Other synonyms for transfigure include transshape, transmute, transposition, and metamorphose. All of these words convey a sense of change, transformation, and metamorphosis, often in a mysterious or magical way.

What are the hypernyms for Transfigure?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Transfigure?

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What are the opposite words for transfigure?

The word 'transfigure' refers to the process of transforming something into a more beautiful or spiritual state. The antonyms for this word are 'disfigure', 'deface', 'mar', 'ruin', 'spoil', and 'deform'. These words suggest the opposite meaning of transfigure, which is to destroy, damage, or disfigure something. While transfigure implies a process of positive change, these antonyms describe negative changes that completely alter the appearance or nature of something. For example, if you deface a painting, you spoil its beauty and ruin its original value. In contrast, if you transfigure a painting, you enhance its beauty and elevate its artistic value.

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Usage examples for Transfigure

Her eyes, of a grey-blue, constantly varying in colour, striking some as intensely blue, others as of a pale, washed-out grey, were small and not beautiful in themselves, but when she grew animated in conversation, those eyes lit up the whole face, seeming in a manner to transfigure it.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
The silence appeared silly; there was, and there could be, no emotion to justify, to transfigure it.
"The Literary Sense"
E. Nesbit
Yet the religious instinct will always strive to maintain its continuity with the past, however it may transfigure the legacy of ruder ages.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill

Famous quotes with Transfigure

  • To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
    John Henry Newman
  • To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
    John Henry Newman
  • The past was real. The present, all about me, was unreal, unnatural, repellent. I saw the big ships lying in the stream... the home of hardship and hopelessness; the boats passing to and fro; the cries of the sailors at the capstan or falls; the peopled beach; the large hide houses, with their gangs of men; and the Kanakas interspersed everywhere. All, all were gone! Not a vestige to mark where one hide house stood. The oven, too, was gone. I searched for its site, and found, where I thought it should be, a few broken bricks and bits of mortar. I alone was left of all, and how strangely was I here! What changes to me! Where were they all? Why should I care for them — poor Kanakas and sailors, the refuse of civilization, the outlaws and the beachcombers of the Pacific! Time and death seemed to transfigure them. Doubtless nearly all were dead; but how had they died, and where? In hospitals, in fever climes, in dens of vice, or falling from the mast, or dropping exhausted from the wreck "When for a moment, like a drop of rain/He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan/Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown." The lighthearted boys are now hardened middle-aged men, if the seas, rocks, fevers, and the deadlier enemies that beset a sailor's life on shore have spared them; and the then strong men have bowed themselves, and the earth or sea has covered them. How softening is the effect of time! It touches us through the affections. I almost feel as if I were lamenting the passing away of something loved and dear — the boats, the Kanakas, the hides, my old shipmates! Death, change, distance, lend them a character which makes them quite another thing.
    Richard Henry Dana

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