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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Part of their education, he insists, must be to learn disappointment—an experience this heartfelt novel transmutes into kindness and wisdom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
There, she transmutes noblewoman Marie d’Odette into a swan and assumes her identity.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025
According to Slant magazine, the writer-director’s flair for “go-for-broke zaniness transmutes what might otherwise have been a lump of self-indulgent cliches into gold.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2022
Phoebe Bridgers, the indie-music breakout of 2020, transmutes her personal angst into downbeat songs accentuated by the self-consciously intimate stream of depression posts on her public Instagram account.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2021
"Oh, as a matter of course," Brockway replied, flinging the damp towel into a corner, and brushing his hair as one who transmutes wrath into vigorous action.
From A Romance in Transit by Francis Lynde
