0 past simple and past participle of transmute
1 to change something completely, especially into something different and better:
Attitudes are transmuted and adapted but remain fundamentally what they have been for generations.
If a seed has absorbed water or germinated, it is considered transmuted (transmuted seed: status 1; untransmuted: status 0).
Her aria and their actions demonstrate the implacability of a desire that should have been stilled, or indeed, transmuted by their accession to power.
In the records she is ostensibly present, but is actually lost to her translated, transmuted, and sexualized inscription.
Its members were transmuted into true intellectuals by a process of revision that usually originated in personal examination.
Nevertheless, just as the possession of a generous income was transmuted into a form of self-sacrice, so too was the prospect of marriage.
The necessity for an existential dimension to the work in hand becomes transmuted into a preference, even a quest for the elimination of the casual.
The pluriactive family eventually transmuted into the small entrepreneur as market conditions improved.
