"transmute" meaning in All languages combined

See transmute on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

IPA: /tɹænzˈmjuːt/ Audio: En-us-transmute.oga [General-American] Forms: transmutes [present, singular, third-person], transmuting [participle, present], transmuted [participle, past], transmuted [past]
Etymology: From Latin trānsmūtāre, from trans + mūtāre. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*mey- (change)}}, {{der|en|la|trānsmūtāre}} Latin trānsmūtāre Head templates: {{en-verb}} transmute (third-person singular simple present transmutes, present participle transmuting, simple past and past participle transmuted)
  1. (ambitransitive) To change or convert one thing to another, or from one state or form to another. Tags: ambitransitive Hypernyms: alter, change Derived forms: retransmute, untransmuted Related terms: transmutability, transmutable, transmutant, transmutate, transmutation Translations (intransitive: to convert one thing into another): transmutarse (Spanish), trasmutarse (Spanish) Translations (transitive: to convert one thing into another): превръщам (prevrăštam) (Bulgarian), transmutar (Catalan), omvormen (Dutch), muuttaa [transitive] (Finnish), muuttua [intransitive] (Finnish), transmuer (French), verwandeln (German), umwandeln (German), 変移 (Japanese), whakaahuakē (Māori), transmuta (Romanian), transmutar (Spanish), trasmutar (Spanish)

Verb [French]

Head templates: {{head|fr|verb form}} transmute
  1. inflection of transmuter:
    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    Tags: first-person, form-of, indicative, present, singular, subjunctive, third-person Form of: transmuter
    Sense id: en-transmute-fr-verb-b56nGAyv Categories (other): Pages with entries, French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 28 15 7 23 2 23 2 Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 70 30
  2. inflection of transmuter:
    second-person singular imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, second-person, singular Form of: transmuter
    Sense id: en-transmute-fr-verb-iva6IJsY

Verb [Portuguese]

Head templates: {{head|pt|verb form}} transmute
  1. inflection of transmutar:
    first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    Tags: first-person, form-of, present, singular, subjunctive, third-person Form of: transmutar
    Sense id: en-transmute-pt-verb-gTXGUC2a Categories (other): Pages with entries, Portuguese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 28 15 7 23 2 23 2 Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with incorrect language header: 76 24
  2. inflection of transmutar:
    third-person singular imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, singular, third-person Form of: transmutar
    Sense id: en-transmute-pt-verb-LilcAoGT

Verb [Spanish]

Head templates: {{head|es|verb form}} transmute
  1. inflection of transmutar:
    first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    Tags: first-person, form-of, present, singular, subjunctive, third-person Form of: transmutar
    Sense id: en-transmute-es-verb-gTXGUC2a Categories (other): Pages with entries, Spanish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 28 15 7 23 2 23 2 Disambiguation of Spanish entries with incorrect language header: 76 24
  2. inflection of transmutar:
    third-person singular imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, singular, third-person Form of: transmutar
    Sense id: en-transmute-es-verb-LilcAoGT

Inflected forms

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          "text": "But others declare that no Creature can be made or tranſmuted into a better or vvorſe, or transformed into another ſpecies or ſimilitude, by man, or devill. […] Martinus [i.e., Martin] Delrio the Jeſuit accounts this degeneration of Man into a Beaſt to be an illuſion, deceptive and repugnant to Nature; for, the ſoule of man cannot informe a beaſts body, […]",
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          "text": "She was examining a water-colour on the wall, seemed to be absorbed by it. He watched her. She was even lovelier than he had remembered; or rather her loveliness had been, in some subtle way, transmuted. Something had given to her a graver, nobler beauty. Last night’s nymph had become the Madonna of this morning. Despite her dress, which was of a tremendous tartan, she diffused the pale authentic radiance of a spirituality most high, most simple. The Duke wondered where lay the change in her. He could not understand. Suddenly she turned to him, and he understood. No longer the black pearl and the pink, but two white pearls!... He thrilled to his heart’s core.",
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          "text": "Mary is sister to the marginalized women who live unchronicled lives in oppressive situations. It does her no honor to rip her out of her conflictual, dangerous historical circumstances and transmute her into an icon of a peaceful, middle-class life robed in royal blue.",
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          "text": "There is silence, then the sound of weeping, which escalates to heart-rending, gasping sobs. A man, the source of the lamentation, appears and as he walks across the stage, his cries transmute into song, and the slow snare drum rat-a-tat-tat of Ravel’s composition begins.",
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          "text": "Etzler was a follower of the wonkish French utopian Charles Fourier, who promised that the scientific reinvention of nature would transmute the saltwater into lemonade.",
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        "(ambitransitive) To change or convert one thing to another, or from one state or form to another."
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          "word": "develop"
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          "sense": "transitive: to convert one thing into another",
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          "sense": "transitive: to convert one thing into another",
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          "text": "But others declare that no Creature can be made or tranſmuted into a better or vvorſe, or transformed into another ſpecies or ſimilitude, by man, or devill. […] Martinus [i.e., Martin] Delrio the Jeſuit accounts this degeneration of Man into a Beaſt to be an illuſion, deceptive and repugnant to Nature; for, the ſoule of man cannot informe a beaſts body, […]",
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          "text": "Mary is sister to the marginalized women who live unchronicled lives in oppressive situations. It does her no honor to rip her out of her conflictual, dangerous historical circumstances and transmute her into an icon of a peaceful, middle-class life robed in royal blue.",
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