0 past simple and past participle of transmute --
1 to change something completely, especially into something different and better: --
The much vaunted freedom of establishment would become transmuted into a constant pressure to migrate to the current centres of economic activity.
I should like to see the creation of an "elephants' graveyard" where outdated charities could be painlessly dispatched or transmuted to more relevant purposes.
They cause embarrassment which is transmuted into discrimination.
I hope and believe that all that has been said and done will be transmuted into human happiness where there would otherwise be misery.
It cannot cure our awful unemployment problem: it is only of help when it is transmuted, transformed, through engineering into useful ends.
This article has also set out to show that when political identities are transmuted into political action, the religiosity of politics is frequently implicit to that process.
Similarly, it can be transmuted for oneself into such a concern.
The pluriactive family eventually transmuted into the small entrepreneur as market conditions improved.
