transubstantiate

to change in form, appearance, or use the novelist transubstantiated the joys and sorrows of his early years into a charming fable about childhood Synonyms alchemize, make over, metamorphose, transfigure, transform, transmute, transpose, convertRelated Words adjust, alter, modify, recast; redefine, redesign, redo, reengineer, refashion, regenerate, remake, remodel, revamp, revise, rework, vary; deform, disfigure, distort, mutate, transmogrify; displace, replace, substitute, supplant