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say it: met-uh-MAWR-fohz
metamorphose is a verb meaning "change completely the nature or appearance of". It carries 2 recorded senses.
change completely the nature or appearance of
“In Kafka's story, a person metamorphoses into a bug”
“The treatment and diet transfigured her into a beautiful young woman”
“Jesus was transfigured after his resurrection”
change in outward structure or looks
“He transformed into a monster”
“The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for metamorphose come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.