metamorphosis
metamorphosis
nounDefinition of METAMORPHOSIS
a change in form, appearance, or use <the metamorphosis of caterpillars into butterflies> <the metamorphosis of the abandoned factory into a mixed-use property>
Related Words shift, transition; adjustment, alteration, modification; reconstruction, reconversion, redo, redoing, refashioning, reformation, remaking, remodeling, revamping, revision, reworking, variation; deformation, disfigurement, distortion, mutation, transmutation; displacement, replacement, substitution, supplantation
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