Elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration.

synonyms: glorify, spiritualize.

Change completely the nature or appearance of:
— The treatment and diet transfigured her into a beautiful young woman.
— Jesus was transfigured after his resurrection.

synonyms: metamorphose, transmogrify.

Roget 140: change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert^†; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume.    work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce; transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify, transume^†; metamorphose, ring the changes.    innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards; give a turn to, give a color to; influence, turn the scale; shift the scene, turn over a new leaf.    recast etc. 146; reverse etc. 218; disturb etc. 61; convert into etc. 144.    ... show more

Dutch: omtoveren, metamorfoseren