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transmute
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  • But, as if in recognition of the colder fuel that drove her, "fiery" transmuted to "ruthless."†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
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  • One day, as she inspected this drawer, I observed that the playthings and trinkets which recently formed its contents were transmuted into bits of folded paper.†  (source)
  • Ms. Kraken can instruct her in transmutation in my absence.†  (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.
  • Now only a few of the older order remained, and they no longer even pretended to transmute metals ... ...but they could make wildfire.†  (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)
  • We were the Church Fathers of waste in all its transmutations.†  (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.
  • He believed that metal could be transmuted into gold by mixing it with extract of urine.†  (source)
  • Somewhere between speech and hearing is a transmutation of sound.†  (source)
  • The obvious suggestions have been made—displace, transmute, dissemble.†  (source)
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