transmute
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See also: transmuté
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin trānsmūtāre, from trans + mūtāre.
Pronunciation
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[edit]transmute (third-person singular simple present transmutes, present participle transmuting, simple past and past participle transmuted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To change, transform or convert one thing to another, or from one state or form to another.
- Synonym: alchemise
- The alchemists tried to transmute base metals to gold.
- Did the base metals transmute to gold?
- 2023 April 14, Roslyn Sulcas, “Review: Grief and Mourning, Delivered With Ecstatic Vitality”, in The New York Times[1]:
- There is silence, then the sound of weeping, which escalates to heart-rending, gasping sobs. A man, the source of the lamentation, appears and as he walks across the stage, his cries transmute into song, and the slow snare drum rat-a-tat-tat of Ravel’s composition begins.
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[edit]to convert one thing into another
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- inflection of transmuter:
Portuguese
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- inflection of transmutar:
Spanish
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[edit]transmute
- inflection of transmutar:
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