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Synonyms for transmute

The synonym for transmute recorded in this bank is convert, in the sense "to change in form, nature, or substance into something else, especially by a mysterious or magical process". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line

The synonym for transmute

convertverb, in the sense "to change in form, nature, or substance into something else, especially by a mysterious or magical process"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day transmute is audited in a second meaning.

The senseverbTier 1, FoothillsChange

to change in form, nature, or substance into something else, especially by a mysterious or magical process

The alchemist claimed his formula could transmute lead into gold.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

convert

Same sentence, swapped: The alchemist claimed his formula could convert lead into gold.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for transmute in the sentence quoted.

refine
smelt
forge

Where transmute turns up in the game

transmute is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play transmute

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so transmute reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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