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