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metamorphize

metamorphize verb: to transform or change; metamorphose.

Verb

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

  1. (ambitransitive) To 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...

Forms of metamorphize

third-person singular presentmetamorphizes
present participlemetamorphizing
past participlemetamorphized
pastmetamorphized
alternative formmetamorphosize

Origin of metamorphize

From meta- + morph + -ize.

Words formed from metamorphize

Questions about metamorphize

What does metamorphize mean?
Metamorphize means to transform or change; metamorphose.
What part of speech is metamorphize?
Metamorphize is a verb.
What is the past tense of metamorphize?
The past tense of metamorphize is metamorphized.

Words near metamorphize in the dictionary

  1. metamorphism
  2. metamorphisms
  3. metamorphist
  4. metamorphists
  5. metamorphization
  6. metamorphize
  7. metamorphized
  8. metamorphizes
  9. metamorphizing
  10. metamorphogenic
  11. metamorphological

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