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Meanings of metamorphose in English

Catalan
transformar
Spanish
transformar

To change completely the nature or appearance of.

        transformar
        Portuguese
        transmutar
        Catalan
        transformar-se

        Change in outward structure or looks.

              transmutar
              Usage of metamorphose in English
              1
              Can you only metamorphose the difficult cases? Professor Lyall was impressed despite himself.
              Blameless
              2
              Their minds consume the power, using it to metamorphose once again.
              The Reality Dysfunction
              3
              They live up to three years as larvae before they metamorphose.
              Radio NZ
              4
              A quarter of an hour sufficed to metamorphose Bathurst into an Oude peasant.
              Rujub, the Juggler
              5
              New articles are added one at a time, so issues metamorphose little by little.
              Wired
              6
              The dressing-rooms where the spheroidal bundles were undergoing metamorphose became buzzing centres of life.
              What Can She Do?
              7
              Flowers or fish or animals can metamorphose themselves, for a time, into astral men.
              Autobiography of a Yogi
              8
              Inside Track would later metamorphose into a blog, which he wrote until his death.
              The Guardian
              9
              Can one single moment so completely metamorphose a human being?
              The Ghost-Seer; or the Apparitionist; and Sport of Destiny
              10
              Might masthead microwaves move our mental molecules, making we moderns metamorphose into mutant mobiles?
              The Irish Times
              11
              Sure enough, in a little while there was a complete metamorphose of the Wild Goose.
              Wolfert's Roost, and Miscellanies
              12
              Several of the consuls, when they go out sporting, metamorphose themselves into veteran Numidian sportsmen.
              Travels in Morocco, Volume 1.
              13
              He sat beside Jeeter and watched the Satanic flesh metamorphose into ever more bizarre forms.
              Phantoms
              14
              Fremount kept looking more and more like Brady, and Brady seemed to metamorphose into Fremount.
              Valis
              15
              But how dost thou know of this my metamorphose?
              The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
              16
              Occasionally, the abstractions would metamorphose into concrete images.
              The Guardian
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              Metamorphose through the time