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transmute

trans·mute

transmute

 
 
pronunciation:
traenz myut
features:
Word Combinations (verb), Word Parts
part of speech: transitive verb
inflections: transmutes, transmuting, transmuted
definition: to change into another form, substance, state, or the like; transform.
If she'd had magical powers at that moment, she would have transmuted the young man into a frog.
similar words:
change, commute, convert, transform, turn
Word Combinations  About this feature
adverb + (v.)transmute automatically, easily, how, now, sometimes, successfully, suddenly, then
(v.)transmute + nounHelp ability, action, alchemist, alchemy, art, artist, base, body, book, business, cash, cell, competitiveness, copper, country, creature, darkness, death, difference, dream, drone, element, event, experience, fear, floor, force, form, gold, history, hydrogen, iron, issue, kind, language, law, lead, life, logic, longing, material, matter, meaning, memory, metal, metaphor, mind, object, outlook, pleasure, point, power, practice, process, quality, question, shape, silence, species, star, stone, substance, symbol, time, vocation, wealth, works, world [See all][See only the most frequent]
derivations: transmutable (adj.), transmutably (adv.), transmutability (n.)