transmute
- v change in outward structure or looks
- v change or alter in form, appearance, or nature
- v alter the nature of (elements)
- Barthelme used this single effect to transmute himself with rapidity into a brilliant bore, and it would be a shame if Goldberg repeated that wasteful performance.
- Modern atomic science can actually transmute metals plutonium is a transmuted metal, and gold could be made from other elements if it were worth the expense and effort.
- And for him, there is neither world enough nor time to transmute all that he sees, breathes and dreams.