Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To transmute; change.
- Transmuted; changed.
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Examples
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When insectoid aliens need to quietly dispose of their unwanted serial killers, they simply transmutate these sadistic prisoners into hulking human beings and release them on the outskirts of New York City.
The Borrower (1991) 2010
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When the man with the dogs reaches enlightenment, these heavenly creatures impregnate him and he begins to slowly transcend and transmutate into one of his dogs.
Symbol Teaser Trailer (Trippy, Claustrophobic Japanese Fantasy) | /Film 2009
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If Obama continues to fluctuate, transmutate, and modify his principles in order to attract the masses of borderline voters, he will surely lose the formidable following he has acquired.
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What killed Europe's Jews was an idea; the notion that when the last Jewish family was dead, the entire Germanic race would transmutate into the next stage of human evolution, der Ubermensch.
Hitler and the Jews 2008
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Baker should transmutate into a rat and hang out on the Labour Front Bench - no one would spot him there.
Most hated? 2007
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With Microsoft's Office 2010 suite planning to ephemerally transmutate into the digital cloud, it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that Apple is intending to make the same transition with their iWork suite.
Cult of Mac 2009
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As already stated, the goal is not to transmutate animals in humans, but to improve their quality of life by endowing them with improved modes of functioning and increased health.
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The addition of good intentions to bullshit fails to transmutate bullshit into anything else.
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As already stated, the goal is not to transmutate animals in humans, but to improve their quality of life by endowing them with improved modes of functioning and increased health.
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Jeff: Making statements about “media” and using the last bit of media you saw as the “evidence,” attributing clear intentions to a system that is often confused about itself and going in several directions at once, allowing your anger at political opponents to transmutate into sweeping statements about news producers, subsuming political conflict into media criticism– these are the hallmarks of culture war, and far, far below the intellectual standards you have set for yourself and maintained so well at Buzzmachine.
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