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, convert, transpose, transubstantiateRelated 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