metamorphosing

verb

present participle of metamorphose
as in transforming
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 metamorphosing For decades, biologists thought that early tetrapods, ancient vertebrates that started conquering the land over 300 million years ago, developed like modern amphibians—beginning their lives as purely aquatic tadpoles and then metamorphosing into terrestrial adults. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 23 June 2026 This office has been metamorphosing over time. — Mishal Husain, Bloomberg, 13 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for metamorphosing
  1. transforming
  2. converting
Verb
  • The couple first tried for locations in Chicago and San Francisco and finally ended up in Exposition Park, taking over land that was once parking lots and transforming it into a futuristic museum that has been likened to a spaceship.
    — Brittany Levine Beckman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Boise has been transforming its airport over the last few years, including by building employee parking and shifting the cell phone waiting lot from the airport’s campus to a lot near Curtis and Victory roads.
    — Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of transforming
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  • After the pandemic shuttered his Inglewood barbershop job, Hector Trinidad reinvented himself, converting a yellow school bus into a curbside barbershop parked just outside USC.
    — Francesca Pinney, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • These questions explain why transcription quality matters far beyond simply converting speech into text.
    — Beth Worthy, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of converting

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“Metamorphosing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/metamorphosing. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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