transmute

transmute

verb

Definition of TRANSMUTE

to change in form, appearance, or use <in his elegy on his deceased wife, the poet has transmuted inconsolable grief into high art>

Synonyms alchemize, make over, metamorphose, transfigure, transform, transmute, transpose, transubstantiate

Related Words adjust, alter, modify, recast; redefine, redesign, redo, reengineer, refashion, regenerate, remake, remodel, revamp, revise, rework, vary; deform, disfigure, distort, mutate, transmogrify; displace, replace, substitute, supplant