transmute
to change from one nature, substance, form, or condition into another; transform.
Origin of transmute
1Other words for transmute
Other words from transmute
- trans·mut·a·ble, adjective
- trans·mut·a·bil·i·ty, trans·mut·a·ble·ness, noun
- trans·mut·a·bly, adverb
- trans·mut·er, noun
- un·trans·mut·a·bil·i·ty, noun
- un·trans·mut·a·ble, adjective
- un·trans·mut·a·ble·ness, noun
- un·trans·mut·a·bly, adverb
- un·trans·mut·ed, adjective
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How to use transmute in a sentence
Some thought if they discovered that recipe, they would be able to copy it and transmute any cell into an egg.
How Silicon Valley hatched a plan to turn blood into human eggs | Antonio Regalado | October 28, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewIn this vision, the mill would transmute into something wholly different, just as uranium itself does, in a process that is the exact opposite of decay.
Once the Uranium Capital of the World, Moab, Utah, wants to unload its radioactive legacy | Sarah Scoles | September 9, 2021 | Popular-ScienceComedy, when done well, has the power to transmute our personal and collective pain.
Padma Lakshmi says disparaging Indian food isn’t funny. It’s ugly. | Padma Lakshmi | August 25, 2021 | Washington PostIt’s a cauldron of extremes, a turbulent soup of transmuting matter, where particles and forces often ignored in our everyday world become critical.
In her world, insight into nature starts on the scale of miniature and is transmuted to the monumental.
Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Environmentalism - Issue 90: Something Green | Anastasia Bendebury & Michael Shilo DeLay | October 7, 2020 | Nautilus
British Dictionary definitions for transmute
/ (trænzˈmjuːt) /
to change the form, character, or substance of
to alter (an element, metal, etc) by alchemy
Origin of transmute
1Derived forms of transmute
- transmutability, noun
- transmutable, adjective
- transmutably, adverb
- transmuter, noun
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