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transmute

/tɹænzˈmjuːt/

transmute verb: to change or convert one thing to another, or from one state or form to another.

Verb

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

  1. (ambitransitive) To change 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?

transmute meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

transmute in Urdu

ہیت بدلنا

transmute in Malayalam

alter, change, adapt
രൂപാന്തരപ്പെടുത്തുക, പൂർണ്ണമായി മറ്റൊന്നാക്കുക, വേറൊരു രൂപമാക്കുക, പരിവർത്തിപ്പിക്കുക, പരിവർത്തനം ചെയ്യുക, പരിണമിപ്പിക്കുക

Examples of transmute in a sentence

  • She was even lovelier than he had remembered; or rather her loveliness had been, in some subtle way, transmuted.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, published...
  • It does her no honor to rip her out of her conflictual, dangerous historical circumstances and transmute her into an icon of a peaceful, middle-class life robed in royal blue.2000 June 17, Elizabeth A. Johnson, “Mary of Nazareth: Friend of God and Prophet”, in America, volume 182, number 21, archived from the...
  • 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.2023 April 14, Roslyn Sulcas, “Review: Grief and Mourning, Delivered With Ecstatic Vitality”, in The New York Times, archived from the...
  • Etzler was a follower of the wonkish French utopian Charles Fourier, who promised that the scientific reinvention of nature would transmute the saltwater into lemonade.2025 March 18, Samuel Moyn, “Can Democrats Learn to Dream Big Again?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Mar...

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Synonyms of transmute

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Forms of transmute

third-person singular presenttransmutes
present participletransmuting
past participletransmuted
pasttransmuted

Past tense of transmute: transmuted

Origin of transmute

From Latin trānsmūtāre, from trans + mūtāre.

Words formed from transmute

Questions about transmute

What does transmute mean?
Transmute means to change or convert one thing to another, or from one state or form to another.
What is transmute in Urdu?
Transmute in Urdu is ہیت بدلنا. See Transmute meaning in Urdu.
How do you use transmute in a sentence?
She was even lovelier than he had remembered; or rather her loveliness had been, in some subtle way, transmuted.
What part of speech is transmute?
Transmute is a verb.
How do you pronounce transmute?
Transmute is pronounced /tɹænzˈmjuːt/.
What is the past tense of transmute?
The past tense of transmute is transmuted.

Words near transmute in the dictionary

  1. transmutationists
  2. transmutations
  3. transmutative
  4. transmutatively
  5. transmutatory
  6. transmute
  7. transmuted
  8. transmuter
  9. transmuters
  10. transmutes
  11. transmutest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: transmute (page history and authors); transmute (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); transmute (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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