Transform

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: trans=form

CIDE DICTIONARY

Transform, v. t. [L. transformare, transformatum; trans across, over + formare to from: cf. F. transformer. See Form, v. t.].

•  To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as, a caterpillar is ultimately transformed into a butterfly.  [1913 Webster]

  "Love may transform me to an oyster."  [1913 Webster]
•  To change into another substance; to transmute; as, the alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.  [1913 Webster]
•  To change in nature, disposition, heart, character, or the like; to convert.  [1913 Webster]

  "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind."  [1913 Webster]
•  To change, as an algebraic expression or geometrical figure, into another from without altering its value.  [1913 Webster]

Transform, v. i. 

 To be changed in form; to be metamorphosed.  [1913 Webster]
"His hair transforms to down."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Transform, v. & n.
--v.
1 a tr. make a thorough or dramatic change in the form, outward appearance, character, etc., of. b intr. (often foll. by into, to) undergo such a change.
2 tr. Electr. change the voltage etc. of (a current).
3 tr. Math. change (a mathematical entity) by transformation.
--n. Math. & Linguistics the product of a transformation.

Derivative

transformable adj. transformative adj.

Etymology

ME f. OF transformer or L transformare (as TRANS-, FORM)

THESAURUS

Transform

acculturate, advance, alter, ameliorate, amend, assimilate to, become, better, boost, bring forward, bring to, change, change into, change over, civilize, commute, convert, denature, do over, edify, educate, elevate, emend, enhance, enlighten, enrich, fatten, favor, forward, foster, go straight, improve, improve upon, lard, lift, make, make an improvement, make over, meliorate, mend, metabolize, metamorphose, modify, mutate, naturalize, nurture, permute, promote, raise, reconvert, reduce to, refine upon, reform, render, resolve into, reverse, shift, socialize, straighten out, switch, switch over, transfer, transfigure, translate, transmogrify, transmute, transpose, transubstantiate, turn back, turn into, upgrade, uplift

ROGET THESAURUS

Transform

Change

VB change, alter, vary, wax and wane, modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with, turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert, pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume, work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce, transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify, transume, metamorphose, ring the changes, innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards, give a turn to, give a color to, influence, turn the scale, shift the scene, turn over a new leaf, recast, reverse, disturb, convert into.