transmute
verb [transitive, intransitive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they transmute | |
| he / she / it transmutes | |
| past simple transmuted | |
| past participle transmuted | |
| -ing form transmuting |
- transmute (something) (into something)
to change, or make something change, into something different （使）變化，變質，變形 It was once thought that lead could be transmuted into gold. 有人曾經認爲鉛可以變成黃金。 My initial feelings of anger have now transmuted into a sense of sorrow and frustration. 我最初的憤怒現在已經變成了悲傷和沮喪。 Pain is the philosophic vitriol which transmutes mere mortal into immortal. 痛苦是將凡人變爲不朽的哲學尖酸刻薄。
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin transmutare, from trans- ‘across’ + mutare ‘to change’.