transfigure
- v elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration
- v change completely the nature or appearance of
The treatment and diet transfigured her into a beautiful young woman
Jesus was transfigured after his resurrection
- Using it to transfigure a profane countenance, Leonardo gave to woman's soul that idealization which Greece had given to her features.
- It is the movie's often awesome imagery and a bravely soaring choral score by James Horner that transfigure the reality, granting it the status of necessary myth.
- A book that persuades you on every page of the power of the imagination to transfigure, to console, to destroy and to create above all to create fictions as magnificent as this .