transmute
verb (used with or without object)
to change from one nature, substance, form, or condition into another; transform.
had transmuted
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past perfectof transmute.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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With Philip particularly, he had transmuted the raw material of his life again and again in his fiction and that had affected his memory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2021
They had transmuted carbon into radioactive nitro gen.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
The inborn strength and authenticity of the parents had transmuted itself, in the younger generation, to a spirit of free enquiry, and an audacity of thought which boded ill for Mrs. Fullerton’s ambitions.
From The Daughters of Danaus by Mona Caird
She had transmuted Western culture and achievement into terms that were intelligible to the Chinese understanding.
From The Strength of the Strong by Jack London
The goal lay in the establishing of a memorial to the author who had transmuted realistic New York into romantic Bagdad-by-the-Subway.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 by Various
