transmute
verb (used with or without object)
to change from one nature, substance, form, or condition into another; transform.
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She turned her head, body still swung forward, and followed the line of his pointing finger to where a cluster of grass as fine, but untransmuted, stood in shadow.
From Secret Bread by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse