metamorphosing

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!

   Synonyms:

   metamorphize, metamorphosize, transform, transmogrify, transmute

3. (transitive) To transform (something) so that it has a completely different appearance.

   Synonyms:

   evolve, metamorphize, convert, develop, draw, reconvert, shift, transfigurate, transfigure, transform