transmute

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See also: transmuté

English

Etymology

From Latin trānsmūtāre, from trans + mūtāre.

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Verb

transmute (third-person singular simple present transmutes, present participle transmuting, simple past and past participle transmuted)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To change, transform or convert one thing to another, or from one state or form to another.
    Synonym: alchemise
    The alchemists tried to transmute base metals to gold.
    Did the base metals transmute to gold?
    • 2023 April 14, Roslyn Sulcas, “Review: Grief and Mourning, Delivered With Ecstatic Vitality”, in The New York Times‎:
      There is silence, then the sound of weeping, which escalates to heart-rending, gasping sobs. A man, the source of the lamentation, appears and as he walks across the stage, his cries transmute into song, and the slow snare drum rat-a-tat-tat of Ravel’s composition begins.

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French

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Verb

transmute

  1. inflection of transmuter:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Portuguese

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transmute

  1. inflection of transmutar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

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transmute

  1. inflection of transmutar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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