transformed

verb

past tense of transform
as in converted
to change in form, appearance, or use by clicking a few buttons, this toy car can be transformed into a robot

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Recent Examples of transformed The city and the Earthquakes, San Jose’s hometown Major League Soccer club, transformed the square into a weeks-long festival. — Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 19 July 2026 The Fan Village in Rockefeller Center will have programming on game day, with the rink transformed into a temporary pitch. — Ali Farooqui, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2026 Yet within three years, the Atlantic crabs have transformed the fishery. — Kasha Patel, CNN Money, 18 July 2026 Built to supply water to the surrounding area, the structure was transformed into a private residence in the early 1980s by local architect Doug Rucker who embraced its unconventional shape rather than alter it. — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 18 July 2026 By moving this argument into print, for a second time, Thiel has transformed a niche theological roadshow into a formal statement of belief. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 18 July 2026 Lululemon transformed retail locations into community hubs where relationships form beyond transactions. — Janita Pannu, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026 What if, Picard asks, the amount and nature of energy transformed by mitochondria is in fact at the center of the human experience? — Rachel Nuwer, Quanta Magazine, 17 July 2026 Leandro Trossard’s Cruyff turns and dummies did that for Arsenal fans, as did Jesus’ mazy runs that transformed the side before his knee injury playing for Brazil at the 2022 World Cup. — Art De Roché, New York Times, 17 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transformed
  1. converted
  2. remodeled
  3. metamorphosed
  4. transmuted
  5. transfigured
Verb
  • The tiny extra amount of hydrogen is converted into a tremendous amount of energy.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 19 July 2026
  • The bulk of the campus had been quickly converted after its previous occupant went down in the fallout from the dot-com bust.
    — Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026
Definition of converted
Verb
  • The building across from our apartment was being remodeled into a three-story Chinese restaurant called El Pacífico.
    — Juan Carlos Albarran, The Conversation, 13 July 2026
  • This remodeled 1905 home sits in historic downtown with a wraparound porch and elder trees on the property.
    — Korrin Bishop, Southern Living, 1 July 2026
Definition of remodeled
Verb
  • In the space of eight years, Tems has metamorphosed from one-to-watch to global megastar.
    — Riann Phillip, Vogue, 15 July 2026
  • What was once an eye-catching clique of wayward teens bathed in purple hues has metamorphosed into a barren hellscape rife with drug-smuggling cartels, pistol-packin’ pimps, sugar daddies with mummification kinks and online streamers.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 24 May 2026
Definition of metamorphosed
Verb
  • But the fields that sloped toward the turquoise sea weren’t about to be cultivated with the vines of Merlot grapes or Regona cider apple trees or even acorns to be transmuted into jamón Ibérico.
    — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 3 June 2026
  • When presented as a wall installation, the pages are transmuted into an object signifying nothing but the imitation of writing by a depersonalized other.
    — Erika Landström, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Definition of transmuted
Verb
  • Thus the god of the clan, the totemic principle, can be none other than the clan itself, but the clan transfigured and imagined.
    — Glenn Adamson, Artforum, 2 May 2026
  • According to sources, Alchemised began as Dramione before being transfigured into a dark romantasy.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
Definition of transfigured

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