transmute
verb (used with or without object)
to change from one nature, substance, form, or condition into another; transform.
has transmuted
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present perfectof transmute (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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It is only when Agnes attends an early performance of “Hamlet” that she realizes that he has transmuted his grief into drama.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
Book after book, the famous alchemist Paulo Coelho has transmuted leaden cliches into publishing gold.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2020
The gender dysphoria she felt before her transition has transmuted into “a real, chronic paranoia”.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 10, 2020
Leap second critics say this once reasonable, even elegant, hack has transmuted into an expensive problem at best, and quite possibly a ticking time bomb.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2015
Students of Petrarch's "Trionfi" will not fail to note what Shelley owes to that poet, and how he has transmuted the definite imagery of mediaeval symbolism into something metaphysical and mystic.
From Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds
