as in to convert
to change in form, appearance, or use
by clicking a few buttons, this toy car can be transformed into a robot
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Recent Examples of transform
This creative decision transforms the family dynamic into the series’ emotional core.
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 June 2025
In the summertime, after the rains, the river swells and the dry landscape transforms green, delighting hungry elephants.
—Mary Holland, Robb Report, 5 June 2025
The Black church if properly resourced and unified could transform our communities.
—Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
Apartments would transform into humid hothouses, the perfect habitat for mosquitoes, water snakes, fungus, and rushes.
—Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 5 June 2025
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 June 2025
In the summertime, after the rains, the river swells and the dry landscape transforms green, delighting hungry elephants.
—Mary Holland, Robb Report, 5 June 2025
The Black church if properly resourced and unified could transform our communities.
—Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
Apartments would transform into humid hothouses, the perfect habitat for mosquitoes, water snakes, fungus, and rushes.
—Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 5 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transform
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But, while Ruth was a good fielder, Phelps was not, and the Senators traded him to the Chicago Cubs, who decided to convert him to catcher.—
Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2025
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According to Academy rules, this converts the category into a juried award.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
12 June 2025
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It was remodeled by its subsequent owners—the brothers who owned the F. W. Woolworth Company—in the style of Versailles, an over-the-top gesture that from a twenty-first-century vantage point looks quintessentially nouveau riche, and quintessentially New Jersey.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
11 June 2025
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The home design cable network bought the house to remodel and give to a lucky viewer.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
28 May 2025
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The Davis Center opened last month, transfiguring six acres at the north end of Central Park.—
Michael Kimmelman,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
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In each instance, the duties of the office transfigured the man into a sign and symbol of hope in the face of death.—
The Editors,
National Review,
21 Apr. 2025
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With crypto, Trump has found an unnervingly effective way to transmute the clout and power of the nation’s highest office into cold, hard cash.—
Will Gottsegen,
The Atlantic,
9 May 2025
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Delving deep into sublime absurdity, Elster transmuted Bowie into a broad range of peculiar characters.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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“Transform.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transform. Accessed 16 Jun. 2025.
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