transmute
verb (used with or without object)
to change from one nature, substance, form, or condition into another; transform.
are transmuting
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present progressiveof transmute.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Pain and sorrow may invest the conditions of the moment, but they are forces which are transmuting the inconsequential into the significant; the common and trivial into the exalted and the sublime.
From The Life Radiant by Lilian Whiting
"They tell me, Vanens," said she, "that your philosophy succeeds so well that you are transmuting copper into silver."
From The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series by Rafael Sabatini
