0 to change something completely, especially into something different and better: --
The important thing within the ritual of confession is not only to confess to acts that transgress the law, but also to transmute one's desire into a form of discourse.
As a consequence, his bird-bride and their "bairnies three" transmute into gulls and take to the skies, leaving the hunter asking whether they will ever return.
An atmosphere of wholeness permeated the entire enterprise, transmuting it into a kind of magic and enshrining it in the minds of those who had been there.
The liberalist turn in the 1920s could not last for long and the critique of the superseding sovereign nation state transmuted into hegemonic regionalism in the 1930s.
Similarly, it can be transmuted for oneself into such a concern.
The pluriactive family eventually transmuted into the small entrepreneur as market conditions improved.
Almost all alchemical treatments and operations were directed toward changing the properties of fusible bodies or transmuting them into each other.
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.
