(v)transform, transmute, transubstantiatechange 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”
(v)transform, transmute, metamorphosechange in outward structure or looks“He transformed into a monster”, “The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle”
(v)transformchange (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species