transmute

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Verb

transmute (transmutes, present participle transmuting; past and past participle transmuted)

1. (ambitransitive) To change, transform or convert one thing to another, or from one state or form to another.

   The alchemists tried to transmute base metals to gold.

   Did the base metals transmute to gold?

Related terms

• transmutability
• transmutable
• transmutant
• transmutate
• transmutation

Translations

• French: transmuer
• German: verwandeln, umwandeln
• Spanish: transmutar, trasladar; transmutarse, trasladarse

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