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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
transmute
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Sienra's paintings show humans transmuting into animals.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And that became transmuted into its converse: he survived because he was special.
▪ Anthony Storr shows how these depressive fears were magically transmuted in the literary sphere.
▪ Art is about creativity, transmuting the humblest subjects into the sublime.
▪ Her mixed media watercolors show humans transmuting into beasts, in strange landscapes full of foreboding.
▪ The second was that its atoms of uranium were transmuting themselves into atoms of a different element whose atomic mass was lower.
▪ Ultimately the wooden drum was transmuted into the body of the membrane drum.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transmute

Transmute \Trans*mute"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transmuted; p. pr. & vb. n. Transmuting.] [L. transmutare, transmutatum; trans across + mutare to change. See Mutable, and cf. Transmew.] To change from one nature, form, or substance, into another; to transform.

The caresses of parents and the blandishments of friends transmute us into idols.
--Buckminster.

Transmuting sorrow into golden joy Free from alloy.
--H. Smith.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
transmute

late 14c., "transform the appearance of," from Latin transmutare "to change" (see transmutation). Related: Transmuted; transmuting.

Wiktionary
transmute

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To change, transform or convert one thing to another, or from one state or form to another. 2 (context intransitive English) To change, transform or convert to another, or from one state or form to another.

WordNet
transmute

  1. v. alter the nature of (elements)

  2. change in outward structure or looks; "He transformed into a monster"; "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle" [syn: transform, metamorphose]

  3. change 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" [syn: transform, transubstantiate]

Usage examples of "transmute".

Osiris offered them as a reward a life in the Field of Reeds, and the Field of Offerings of Food, and the Field of the Grasshoppers, and everlasting existence in a transmuted and beautified body among the resurrected bodies of father and mother, wife and children, kinsfolk and friends.

And, provided your mind is not in as bad condition as your body, this physical overplus will transmute some of itself into mental exuberance.

We shall argue that, in the case of mankind, and pre-eminently in the case of woman, this enrichment and development of the individual life is best and most surely attained by parenthood or foster-parenthood, made self-conscious and provident, and magnificently transmuted by its extension and amplification upon the psychical plane in the education of children and, indeed, the care and ennoblement of human life in all its stages.

Soon they personified the Sun, and worshipped him under the name of OSIRIS, and transmuted the legend of his descent among the Winter Signs, into a fable of his death, his descent into the infernal regions, and his resurrection.

Canopy transmuted into something very different: a jumbled agglomeration of freakish crystalline shapes, like something magnified from a geology textbook, or a photomicrograph of a fantastically adapted virus.

Their genes have been shuffled around, mutated, transposed, rearranged, duplicated, reduplicated, and transmuted, and the DNA we now possess bears only the vaguest resemblance to what it was like at the beginning.

Arithon could not transmute the effects, reft as he was from his mage talent.

Actually, that makes sense: neutrons decaying into protons and pions would transmute some of the calcium to scandium, the oxygen to fluorine, and the carbon to nitrogen.

I suppose if a pocketknife can be transmuted into a key a chain can be transmuted into a scar.

With alchemical magic the lamp revealed the fire buried in her dark hair and transmuted her yellow satin gown to gold.

Halrloprillalar told Nessus that the Ringworld ships carried lead, for compactness, and transmuted it into air and water and fuel during the journey.

But why not simply plate it around the ship, where it would serve as shielding before it need be transmuted into fuel?

As the hot, early universe evolved, the extra dimensions may have transmuted from shape to shape, ultimately settling down to one particular Calabi-Yau space once things had cooled off sufficiently.

I walked through the transmuted place beside my two males, one in herringbone, the other in navy pea.

The transmission transmuted itself into patterns and three-dimensional graphics that could only have been produced by a powerful artificial intelligence.