(transmutes, transmuting, transmuted)
If something transmutes or is transmuted into a different form, it is changed into that form. (FORMAL)
She ceased to think, as anger transmuted into passion...
Scientists transmuted matter into pure energy and exploded the first atomic bomb.
VERB: V into n, V n into n, also V n
• transmutation (transmutations)
...the transmutation of food into energy.
N-VAR: oft N of n