MEANING
To transform something so that it acquires a different form, substance, or essential character.
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Words that belong together
- transmute grief into art
- transmute lead into gold
- transmute experience
On the page
She transmuted the family's quarrels into stories no relative could bear to read.
The alchemist promised to transmute lead into gold and asked for payment in advance.
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Word forms
- Base
- transmute
- Past tense
- transmuted
- Past participle
- transmuted
- Present participle
- transmuting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- transmute
- Present continuous
- am/is/are transmuting
- Present perfect
- have/has transmuted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been transmuting
- Past
- transmuted
- Past continuous
- was/were transmuting
- Past perfect
- had transmuted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been transmuting
- Future
- will transmute
- Future continuous
- will be transmuting
- Future perfect
- will have transmuted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been transmuting
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: transmute; transmutes; transmuted; transmuted; transmuting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: transmutes.
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