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   transmute

   /trɑːnzˈmjuːt/

   verb

   • 1. change in form, nature, or substance: "the raw material of his experience was transmuted into stories"
   • ▪ subject (base metals) to alchemical transmutation: "the quest to transmute lead into gold"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Latin transmutare, from trans- ‘across’ + mutare ‘to change’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. transmutability noun
   • 2. transmutable adjective
   • 3. transmutative adjective
   • 4. transmuter noun

   Scrabble Points: 11

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