Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Transmute

Transmute , transitive verb

[Latin transmutare, transmutatum; trans across + mutare to change. See Mutable, and compare Transmew.]

To change from one nature, form, or substance, into another; to transform.
The caresses of parents and the blandishments of friends transmute us into idols. — Buckminster
Transmuting sorrow into golden joy Free from alloy. — H. Smith