Dictionary entry

Transmute

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Trans‐mute″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Transmuted; p. pr. & vb. n.Transmuting.] [L. transmutare, transmutatum; trans across + mutare to change. See Mutable, and cf. Transmew.] To change from one nature, form, or substance, into another; to transform.

The caresses of parents and the blandishments of friends transmute us into idols. Buckminster.

Transmuting sorrow into golden joy

Free from alloy. H. Smith.