transmute
verb (used with or without object)
to change from one nature, substance, form, or condition into another; transform.
have transmuted
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present perfectof transmute.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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Their chemistry might have transmuted, but the legacy of the alchemical philosophers is still being unrolled.
From Nature ● Apr. 28, 2020
One does not see how a system of undulations could have transmuted the physical facts in this way.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
We possess knowledge and we find wisdom, when we have transmuted that knowledge into its interior meaning.
From Sex--The Unknown Quantity The Spiritual Function of Sex by Alexander J. (Alexander James) McIvor-Tyndall
So the land lacked both the arms of the tiller, and the dressing whose generous chemistry would have transmuted the dull earth into fruitfulness and plenty.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot by John Morley
And the alchemy that should have transmuted these to gold, and educed from the one light and from the other majesty, was wanting.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
