Today's Word "transmute"
Published in Vocabulary
transmute \trans-MYOOT; tranz-\ (transitive verb) - 1 : To change from one nature, form, substance, or state into another; to transform.
(intransitive verb) - 1 : To undergo transmutation.
"Pops was a master at taking a pile of random clay, wire, wood and other rubbish and transmuting it into art."
Transmute is from Latin transmutare, "to change utterly," from trans-, "across" + mutare, "to change."
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