metastasise

1. 1.

   spread throughout the body

   “the cancer had metastasized and the patient could not be saved”

   Synonymsmetastasize

   Broaderspread

Other forms of metastasise

past tense

metastasised·

present participle

metastasising·

third person

metastasises·

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.

Questions about metastasise

What does metastasise mean?

metastasise means "spread throughout the body".

How many syllables are in metastasise?

metastasise has 4 syllables: me-ta-sta-sise. The stress falls on "ta".

What is another word for metastasise?

Close synonyms include metastasize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is metastasise a common word?

metastasise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.