transmute
verb (used with or without object)
to change from one nature, substance, form, or condition into another; transform.
transmuted
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past participleof transmute.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof transmute.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
transmuteverb (used with or without object)to change from one nature, substance, form, or condition into another; transform.
Example Sentences
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“Another Dimension” is his answer to the years of rejection, pain and incandescent ire, but transmuted into a vibrant, avant-garde, genre-defying gaping wound found within 11 tight tracks.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
In Heaney’s poetry the personal is always transmuted by a larger vision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Yet Boggs makes a strong case for these books as successful formal experiments in which Baldwin once again transmuted the storms of his personal life into eloquent indictments of systemic racism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2025
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
“It was much easier, and more pleasant, to understand round-faced young Professor Ernest Orlando Lawrence of the University of California tell how he transmuted elements with ‘deuton’ bullets.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
