| 单词 | transmute |
| 释义 | transmute (once / 2396 pages) v Transmute is a verb meaning to change in appearance or form. For example, magical creatures can transmute into other beings. When you're fighting a wizard, don’t be surprised if he transmutes into a terrifying dragon. More realistically, you, too, can transmute your appearance — by dying your hair, piercing your nose, or changing your style of dress. Transmute often describes physical change — like when alchemists tried to transmute lead into gold — but it can also be used more figuratively to describe anything that's transformed. For example, you might transmute your sketchy memories of growing up in Boston into the Great American Novel. WORD FAMILYtransmute: transmutable, transmutation, transmuted, transmutes, transmuting+/transmutable: transmutability, untransmutable/transmutation: transmutations USAGE EXAMPLESLioness teaches the neighbor’s children to transmute armfuls of barren soil into flowers. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) Their anger is growing by the day, the initial joy of freedom inspired by the anticipated removal of Isis from Mosul transmuted into fear. The Guardian(Dec 27, 2016) The insurgent rock band had long ago transmuted into pro-capitalist entrepreneurs even as they sang about revolution. The Guardian(Nov 26, 2016) 1v change or alter in form, appearance, or nature Syn|Hypo|Hyper transform, transubstantiate transubstantiate change (the Eucharist bread and wine) into the body and blood of Christ sorcerise, sorcerizetransform or change by means of sorcery stalinise, stalinizetransform in accordance with Stalin's policies destalinise, destalinizecounteract the effects and policies of Stalinism process, work, work onshape, form, or improve a material hot-workroll, press, forge, or shape (metal) while hot cold work, coldworkshape (metal) without heat overworkuse too much make over, retread, reworkuse again in altered form rackwork on a rack toolwork with a tool tillwork land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 2v change in outward structure or looks Syn|Hypo|Hyper metamorphose, transform aurify transform into gold become, turnundergo a change or development boil down, come down, reducebe the essential element choke, suffocatebecome stultified, suppressed, or stifled nucleateform into a nucleus add up, amount, comedevelop into change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 3v alter the nature of (elements) Hyper alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation |
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