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- verb Present participle of
transmute .
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Examples
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In 1932 they succeeded in transmuting lithium and boron by high energy protons.
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This is odd to hear because Hare has made his name by transmuting political actualité into art.
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A chapter on macrobiotics — literally the art of long life — makes the point that, in China, the idea of transmuting minerals to gold was never divorced from the idea of using minerals to achieve immortality, or at least to heal ills; in the West, Needham remarks, comparable ideas only began to flower with Paracelsus.
Short Reviews Editors, The 1981
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For many are the outcome of after-thoughts, of ideas suggested during the process of what I have called transmuting musical hieroglyphics into sound.
Style in Singing W. E. Haslam
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She heard Darkwind utter something about "transmuting," and then he trailed off into a stream of what she guessed to be incredulous Tayledras curses.
Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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She heard Darkwind utter something about "transmuting," and then he trailed off into a stream of what she guessed to be incredulous Tayledras curses.
Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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Brain science has progressed so dramatically that we now understand how empathy and altruism, archetypal imagery and transmuting affects like joy and bliss work.
Joe Loizzo, M.D., Ph.D.: Reliable Methods: The Future Of Self-Transcendence Joe Loizzo 2012
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Brain science has progressed so dramatically that we now understand how empathy and altruism, archetypal imagery and transmuting affects like joy and bliss work.
Joe Loizzo, M.D., Ph.D.: Reliable Methods: The Future Of Self-Transcendence Joe Loizzo 2012
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Brain science has progressed so dramatically that we now understand how empathy and altruism, archetypal imagery and transmuting affects like joy and bliss work.
Joe Loizzo, M.D., Ph.D.: Reliable Methods: The Future Of Self-Transcendence Joe Loizzo 2012
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Malcolm, our fighter, carries a modest +1 heavy flail of transmuting (which, after hitting a creature, gains the properties needed to bypass its DR).
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