Transmute \Trans*mute"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Transmuted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Transmuting}.] [L. transmutare, transmutatum; trans across + mutare to change. See {Mutable}, and cf. {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.
And we should not give in to the temptation to transmute a small difference in a historic relationship into a major disagreement that might end up damaging the greatest foreign-policy success of the post-war era.