Verb

(en verb)

To change greatly the appearance or form of.

The alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.

* Shakespeare

Love may transform me to an oyster.

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To change the nature, condition or function of; to change in nature, disposition, heart, character, etc.; to convert.

* Bible, Romans xii. 2

Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.

(mathematics) To subject to a transformation; to change into another form without altering the value.

(electricity) To subject to the action of a transformer.

(genetics) To subject (a cell) to transformation.

To undergo a transformation.

Verb

(en verb)

To maintain, or keep in existence.

To provide for or nourish.

provisions to sustain an army

To encourage (something ).

To experience or suffer (an injury, etc. ).

* Dryden

Shall Turnus, then, such endless toil sustain ?

* Shakespeare

You shall sustain more new disgraces.

To confirm, prove, or corroborate.

to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition

To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.

A foundation sustains''' the superstructure; an animal '''sustains''' a load; a rope '''sustains a weight.

To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.

(Shakespeare)

* Dryden

his sons, who seek the tyrant to sustain