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Grammar : Verb
Spell : verb trans-fawrm; noun trans-fawrm
Phonetic Transcription : verb trænsˈfɔrm; noun ˈtræns fɔrm



Definition of transform

Origin :
  • mid-14c., from Old French transformer, from Latin transformare "change the shape or form of," from trans- "across" (see trans-) + formare "to form" (see form (v.)). Related: Transformed; transforming.
  • verb change completely
Example sentences :
  • What new feeling could transform me, since I find none in me?
  • Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
  • The sixth can create and transform living creatures if he feel inclined.
  • Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
  • How to transform the left overs into palatable and wholesome dishes.
  • Extract from : « Sandwiches » by Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer
  • It will be easy to watch them and to see them transform, and eventually to get the butterfly.
  • Extract from : « Boy Scouts Handbook » by Boy Scouts of America
  • With uncertain hands she tried to transform that pity into sorrow, not for herself, but for him.
  • Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
  • These exercises correct the form of the body and transform the recruit into a soldier.
  • Extract from : « Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence » by Various
  • I transform his whole life into a chain of causes and effects.
  • Extract from : « Psychotherapy » by Hugo Mnsterberg
  • We must transform it into beneficence, and its opposite into the idea of maleficence.
  • Extract from : « Diderot and the Encyclopdists » by John Morley
  • It must not be forgotten, indeed, that the result of it upon Knox himself was to transform him.
  • Extract from : « John Knox » by A. Taylor Innes
  • You transform the instrument into something that is neither an orchestra nor a pianoforte.
  • Extract from : « Old Fogy » by James Huneker

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