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[ verb ] change in outward structure or looks

Examples

"He transformed into a monster" "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle"

Used in print

(Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)

In this process the Minoan Mycenaean inheritance had been transmuted or finally rejected ; the Aegean world which had existed before 1000 differed from that which rises more clearly in our vision after 800 .

Related terms

change become aurify

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[ verb ] change or alter in form, appearance, or nature

Examples

"This experience transformed her completely" "She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture" "transubstantiate one element into another"

Used in print

(Charles Glicksberg, "Sex in Contemporary Literature"...)

Thus jazz is transmuted into something holy , the sacred road to integration of being .

3
[ verb ] alter in nature; of chemical elements in alchemy

Related terms

change chemistry

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