Thesaurus results for TRANSFORMS

transforms

verb

Definition of transforms next

present tense third-person singular of transform

as in converts

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 transforms Wastewater is also reused for irrigation, and the hotel has also started recycling vegetable oils with an organization that transforms the waste into biodiesel. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 May 2026 Technology, desire and collapse Across the Giardini, Maja Malou Lyse’s DIS, Things to Come (2026) transforms the Danish Pavilion into an immersive environment where digital imagery and physical presence collapse into one another. —

Andrew S. Jacobson, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2026 This is one of several instances of emotional realism that pierce the film’s temporal veil — turning it, in theory, from a series of recollections into a more pressing and contemporary saga of how war trickles down and transforms the lives of young girls in fundamental ways. —

Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 13 May 2026 The Heat making a selection and then bypassing any post-pick pomp, knowing the selection is heading elsewhere as part of the type of trade that transforms the roster. —

Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 13 May 2026 This car seat-to-stroller hybrid transforms with the push of a button, eliminating the need for a separate stroller during short trips. —

ABC News, 12 May 2026 The now-annual event transforms Crown Center into a holiday town square. —

Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 12 May 2026 Once the snow melts, the resort transforms into a downhill mountain biking mecca featuring more than 80 miles of singletrack. —

Sharael Kolberg, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2026 Odysseus encounters a cyclops, sea monsters, and a sorceress who transforms men into animals, all rendered with minimal CGI and maximum ambition. —

Eliana Dockterman, Time, 12 May 2026

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Out back, a small sewage-treatment plant converts bodily waste from two flanking portable toilets into purified water, which is piped into a large tank in which yet another unclothed woman, wearing a scuba mouthpiece, floats for four hours at a time.

— Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 16 May 2026
The first was Skycouch, introduced back in 2011, which converts a row of three economy seats into a flat couch that can be booked solo or shared with a partner or child.

— Chris Dong, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026