metamorphose
to change the form or nature of; transform.
to subject to metamorphosis or metamorphism.
to undergo or be capable of undergoing a change in form or nature.
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- un·met·a·mor·phosed, adjective
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How to use metamorphose in a sentence
To arrive at an age when women stand-up comedians would be considered a normal thing, American culture and American show business had to metamorphose, sometimes in sync, sometimes leapfrogging each other.
Yet resilience and creativity also emerge, as people carve out a new way of living in a city metamorphosed.
20 Essential Works of Climate Fiction for Your Reading List | smurguia | October 5, 2021 | Outside OnlineShe had a natural talent for extracting lessons from ordinary moments, showing her kids how caterpillars metamorphose into butterflies and sliding magnets near metallic pipes to explain polarity.
Held Back: Inside a Lost School Year | by Annie Waldman, ProPublica, photography by Cydni Elledge | June 28, 2021 | ProPublicaOver the last few years, Section 230 of the 1996 US Communications Decency Act has metamorphosed from a little-known subset of regulations about the internet into a major rallying point for both the right and left.
How a Democratic plan to reform Section 230 could backfire | Bobbie Johnson | February 8, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewThat indeed would soon metamorphose into the strongest and broadest economic expansion since World War II.
The Twilight Vindication of George H.W. Bush | Mark K. Updegrove | October 20, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
You metamorphose, seemingly overnight, from most- to least-stressed individual on the astrological block.
Any little Accident from without may metamorphose his Fancy, and push him upon a new set of Thoughts.
A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage | Jeremy CollierHow metamorphose a passage of dialect into the power of gravitation, and a silent corollary into a flash of lightning?
Studies of Christianity | James MartineauYour desire for profits, which is sheer selfishness, you metamorphose into altruistic solicitude for suffering humanity.
The Iron Heel | Jack LondonNow the pitcher, as this is called, is not a new organ, but simply a metamorphose of a leaf.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation | Robert ChambersThe metamorphose is forcible, perhaps it has more force and wit than elegance.
British Dictionary definitions for metamorphose
/ (ˌmɛtəˈmɔːfəʊz) /
to undergo or cause to undergo metamorphosis or metamorphism
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