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transmew

transmew verb: to transmute, change.

Verb

transmew (third-person singular simple present transmews, present participle transmewing, simple past and past participle transmewed)

  1. (obsolete) To transmute, change.
    • Soone into other fits he was transmewed, / Till she to him her gratious speach renewed […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • […] his sudden ruin ministered matter of most lamentable tears to his dear mother and loving sisters, insomuch, that they were pitifully changed, as some write, into alder trees, as some, into poplars. Sic flevit Clymene : sic et Clymeneides alta: as it might be the mournful church, and her wailing...1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierce's Supererogation; or, A New Praise of the Old Ass, published 1815, pages 97–98

Forms of transmew

third-person singular presenttransmews
present participletransmewing
past participletransmewed
pasttransmewed

Origin of transmew

From Middle French transmuer, from Latin transmūtāre.

Questions about transmew

What does transmew mean?
Transmew means to transmute, change.
What part of speech is transmew?
Transmew is a verb.
What is the past tense of transmew?
The past tense of transmew is transmewed.

Words near transmew in the dictionary

  1. transmethylases
  2. transmethylate
  3. transmethylated
  4. transmethylation
  5. transmethylations
  6. transmew
  7. transmewed
  8. transmewing
  9. transmews
  10. transmicrovascular
  11. transmigrable

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