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 alchemy of a fine nature had transmuted his disadvantages into gold.
From Life of Charles Dickens by Frank T. (Frank Thomas) Marzials
At length the punishment ceased, but the mortification of the Sultan did not end here, for all the gold which the Dirveshe had transmuted returned to its original metals.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
In short, and to repeat, Ripogenus had transmuted itself into vapor, and filled the valley full to our feet.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various
