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metamorphosed

metamorphosed is the simple past and past participle of metamorphose.

Meaning of metamorphose

Verb

metamorphose (third-person singular simple present metamorphoses, present participle metamorphosing, simple past and past participle metamorphosed)

  1. (intransitive) Of a moth or insect, to undergo metamorphosis.
  2. (broadly, intransitive) To undergo some transformation.
    • In fact, perhaps this is the pure and perfect incest: the brother realising that the sister’s virginity must be destroyed in order to have existed at all, taking that virginity in the person of the brother-in-law, the man whom he would be if he could become, metamorphose into, the lover, the...1936, William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
  3. (transitive) To transform (something) so that it has a completely different appearance.

Questions about metamorphosed

What is metamorphosed the simple past and past participle of?
Metamorphosed is the simple past and past participle of metamorphose.

Words near metamorphosed in the dictionary

  1. metamorphopsies
  2. metamorphopsy
  3. metamorphosable
  4. metamorphosality
  5. metamorphose
  6. metamorphosed
  7. metamorphoser
  8. metamorphosers
  9. metamorphoses
  10. metamorphosic
  11. metamorphosical

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