transmute Definition
trans·mute (trans myo̵̅o̅t′, tranz-)
transmute Related Forms
trans·mut′·able adjective
trans·mut′·ably adverb
transmute Synonyms
transmute Usage Examples
Object
- metal: For example, take his assertion that he has transmuted a base metal into gold.
- energy: Let this light sweep out the pyramid, transmuting any negative energies into positive ones.
- lead: Such a teacher can make silk purses out of pigs ' ears, transmute lead into gold can even use Headway to effect.
- iron: They set about trying to transmute iron into gold to fund their regeneration of Europe.
- element: These spirals over time change and transmute simple elements in the mountains into valuable minerals, metals, and precious stones.
- life: The human being transmutes life into consciousness through perception ' The human being is the plant of consciousness.
Subject
alchemy: These impure materials could be transmuted by alchemy into the perfection of gold.
Preposition: into
- gold: It transmutes into gold still locked in the ground.
- something: This morning he'd been consumed with brooding and terror, but that was transmuting into something else.
- form: Are they replaced by real friends, or is that energy transmuted into other creative forms?
- poetry: An alchemist of words, in her hands cleverness is transmuted into poetry and passion.
- theory: He gave a subtle, original, and comprehensive theory of the proper process whereby experience should be transmuted into theory.
- kind: The awareness that more and more resources are tied up in discarded and obsolete machinery is transmuted into a kind of glamor.
Preposition: by
alchemy: These impure materials could be transmuted by alchemy into the perfection of gold.
Modifying Another Word
- continually: Eight more of of the air continually transmute from was not terribly.
- easily: Paper can be transmuted more easily than lead can change to gold.
- somehow: Yet apparently complete failure can be somehow transmuted into creativity beyond everyday explanation.
- slowly: There is Latin itself, which ultimately failed to outlive the imperium and which slowly transmuted into the vernacular Romance languages.
- eventually: The efforts of life eventually transmute the ignoble into illustrious nobility.
- quickly: In human beings, gratitude quickly transmutes to oblivion or resentment.
Browse dictionary entries near transmute
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- ‹ transmittancy
- ‹ transmittance
- ‹ transmit clock
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