transfigure
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Related & opposite
- transfiguration derivation
- Transfiguration of Jesus derivation
- Transfiguration derivation
Sense 2 verb
change completely the nature or appearance of
In Kafka's story, a person metamorphoses into a bug
Types & categories
- reverse hypernym
Related & opposite
- transmogrification derivation
- metamorphosis derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | transfiguration |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | Transfiguration of Jesus |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | Transfiguration |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | transmogrification |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | metamorphosis |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | reverse |