metamorphize

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verb

To transform or change; metamorphose.

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Meanings

verbmetamorphize (third-person singular simple present metamorphizes, present participle metamorphizing, simple past and past participle metamorphized)

present singular third person metamorphizes · participle present metamorphizing · participle past metamorphized · past metamorphized · alternative metamorphosize

  1. ambitransitiveTo transform or change; metamorphose.

    [T]hoſe Laſciuious, Immodeſt, VVhoriſh, or vngodly Faſhions, and Attires, vvhich Metamorphiſe, and Transforme, our Light, and Giddie Females of the Superior and Gentile ranke, into ſundry Antique, Horred, and Out-landiſh ſhapes, from day, to day: […]

    1628, William Prynne, The Vnlouelinesse, of Louelockes. Or, A Summarie Discourse, Proouing: The Wearing, and Nourishing of a Locke, or Loue-locke, to be Altogether Vnseemely, and Vnlawfull unto Christians. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 1

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
convertdevelopdrawevolvemetamorphosereconvertshifttransfiguratetransfiguretransformtransmogrifytransmutetransume

Origin

From meta- + morph + -ize.

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APA

metamorphize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metamorphize

MLA

“metamorphize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metamorphize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “metamorphize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metamorphize.

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