transmute
verb (used with or without object)
to change from one nature, substance, form, or condition into another; transform.
was transmuting
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past progressiveof transmute.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Burly, bearded Russian Michael Bakunin was transmuting his biologic impotence into an ardent anarchism-of-the-deed that longed to send the whole world up in smoke.
From Time Magazine Archive
At about the time of my birth economic pressure was transmuting the family generally from farmers to "hired" help.
From Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
The hour was very early, and the newly risen sun was transmuting into diamonds the dewdrops that still lingered on the lawn.
From Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Think, Reader, if I marvelled when I saw the thing stand quiet in itself, while in its image it was transmuting itself.
From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Purgatory by Charles Eliot Norton
Think, Reader, if I marveled when I saw the thing stand quiet in itself, while in its image it was transmuting itself.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
