Alter vs Transfigure - What's the difference?
alter | transfigure |
To change the form or structure of.
* Bible, Psalms lxxxix. 34
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
To become different.
To tailor clothes to make them fit.
To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
(obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.
To transform the outward appearance of something; to convert into a different form, state or substance.
To glorify or exalt something or someone.
As verbs the difference between alter and transfigure
is that alter is to change the form or structure of while transfigure is to transform the outward appearance of something; to convert into a different form, state or substance.alter
English
Alternative forms
* altre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
- No power in Venice can alter a decree.
- It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
- (Milton)