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noun

plural of metamorphosis

as in transformations

a change in form, appearance, or use the metamorphosis of caterpillars into butterflies the metamorphosis of the abandoned factory into a mixed-use property

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verb

present tense third-person singular of metamorphose

as in transforms

to change in form, appearance, or use a science fiction story in which radiation metamorphoses people into giant bugs

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Recent Examples of metamorphoses

Noun

His fingerprints are all over the 21st-century Big Inventive Novel, with its sentient raindrops (Elif Shafak), its melodramatic families (Kiran Desai), its metamorphoses of race (Mohsin Hamid) and history (Marlon James). —

Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025 My son had to work to follow Jack’s metamorphoses, to track the relationship between the spells and their consequences. —

David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025

Verb

The Tale of Genji ’s early chapters are rooted in fairy-tale monogatari, but the book soon metamorphoses into its own strange thing, a courtly romance that follows Prince Genji over his half century of life, and then, after Genji’s death, takes up the lives of the next generation. —

Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025

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Noun

Since then, the heavy bomber has undergone more than half a dozen transformations to align its technology with the military’s changing needs.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
Services replacement followed a similar pattern, often tied to major platform shifts or business transformations.

— Peter Bendor-Samuel, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026