transmute
Example Sentences
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The rosary presupposes our boredom, propensity to distraction, and impatience with dull routine and attempts to transmute these failings into the virtues of faith, hope and charity.
Astrologers consult a national zodiac, palm readers ring pagodas, would-be alchemists attempt to transmute mercury into gold and SIM card companies advertise dial-a-diviners.
From Barron's
In Heaney’s poetry the personal is always transmuted by a larger vision.
"What causes something to be insulating, conducting or magnetic? Can we transmute something into a different state?"
From Science Daily
According to Israel's Basic Law, the president "has the power to pardon criminals and reduce or transmute their sentence".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
