metamorphosize
English
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editEtymology
editFrom metamorphose + -ize.
Verb
editmetamorphosize (third-person singular simple present metamorphosizes, present participle metamorphosizing, simple past and past participle metamorphosized)
- (nonstandard) To undergo the process of metamorphosis; to metamorphose.
- 1995, Joyce Rupp, Little Pieces of Light...: Darkness and Personal Growth, page 36:
- "Sitting in the darkness and waiting doesn't come naturally for us even though we "sat" for nine months in our mother's womb, a development which is as mysterious and marvelous as that of a caterpillar metamorphosizing into a butterfly."