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transmute
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  • It subdivided itself again and again—but from the very first stage, transmutation was occurring.†  (source)
  • We were the Church Fathers of waste in all its transmutations.†  (source)
  • He believed that metal could be transmuted into gold by mixing it with extract of urine.†  (source)
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  • The modern masters promise very little; they know that metals cannot be transmuted and that the elixir of life is a chimera but these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pore over the microscope or crucible, have indeed performed miracles.†  (source)
  • Somewhere between speech and hearing is a transmutation of sound.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • The obvious suggestions have been made—displace, transmute, dissemble.†  (source)
  • By then, I think, he was transmuting anger into something that felt better, a dream of ending the disparities, at least the medical ones, that separated Boston and Cange.†  (source)
  • There is a shepherd—youth, a friend of mine, who transmutes them into something highly fascinating to my simplicity.†  (source)
  • Oh, yes, I had experienced all these changes and transmutations that fate reserves for her difficult children, her ticklish customers.†  (source)
  • —it's not this, not this that she is depending on to keep body and soul together: it is as though she were living on the actual blood itself like a vampire, not with insatiability, certainly not with voracity, but with that serene and idle splendor of Rowers arrogating to herself, because it fills her veins also, nourishment from the old blood that crossed uncharted seas and continents and battled wilderness hardships and lurking circumstances and fatalities, with tranquil disregard of whatever onerous carks to leisure and even peace which the preservation of it incurs upon what might be called the contemporary transmutable fountainhead who contrives to keep the crass foodbearing corpuscles†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
  • In the spiritual world, the old physician and the minister—mutual victims as they have been—may, unawares, have found their earthly stock of hatred and antipathy transmuted into golden love.†  (source)
  • Ms. Kraken can instruct her in transmutation in my absence.†  (source)
  • He was glad that he had not tried to transmute anything larger.†  (source)
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