transmute
verb (used with or without object)
to change from one nature, substance, form, or condition into another; transform.
transmutes
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present tense formof transmute (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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In his distinctive sandpaper rasp, he takes what’s timeless and transmutes it to the present.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
Finally, she transmutes into a virus — a female bug in a hardwired social system.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
Like a sleazy alchemist, Hill transmutes shoestring budgets into cinematic gold, melting down and reshaping scrap metal into distinctive, often beautiful art.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2020
In a way it transmutes our very real and ongoing anxiety and sense of helplessness into something we can put eyes on, a vicarious and safely distant fantasy of disorder and detonation.
From Salon ● May 4, 2020
Divine love, love that could die, love that did die, that its beloved ones might not die, is the solvent which transmutes all the shame and pain of sin to heavenly glory and bliss.
From Misread Passage of Scriptures by James Baldwin Brown
