Verb
- 1. transform, change, alter, modify
- usage: subject to a mathematical transformation
- 2. transform, transmute, transubstantiate, change, alter, modify
- usage: change or alter in form, appearance, or nature; "This experience transformed her completely"; "She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture"; "transubstantiate one element into another"
- 3. transform, transmute, metamorphose, change
- usage: change in outward structure or looks; "He transformed into a monster"; "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle"
- 4. translate, transform, change, alter, modify
- usage: change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil"
- 5. transform, change, alter, modify
- usage: convert (one form of energy) to another; "transform energy to light"
- 6. transform, change, alter, modify
- usage: change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species
- 7. transform, change, alter, modify
- usage: increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage)
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