0 present participle of transmute
1 to change something completely, especially into something different and better:
Even then skeptics peering into the mental laboratory from the outside regard it as something like the transmuting of metals; the claims exceed the results.
Parties institutionalized citizenship by organizing the electorate for the civic rituals of voting and by transmuting inchoate demands into law and policy.
Almost all alchemical treatments and operations were directed toward changing the properties of fusible bodies or transmuting them into each other.
His manner of transmuting his sources using them as "clues" and "tools," and his use of analogies without much warning about his method create additional difficulty.
Reprocessing offers the prospect of separating and transmuting the actinides, the long-lived radioactive components, to render them harmless by incineration.
I am prepared to assert that it would not have been recognised as a transmuting act of generosity.
The same point can be made about that other hoary old favourite, short-dated gilts, as a means of transmuting higher-taxed income into lower-taxed or usually non-taxed capital gains.
The song was also pivotal in transmuting folk rock into the new musical forms of psychedelia and raga rock.
