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Verb: metamorphose  `me-tu'mor-fowz
  1. Change completely the nature or appearance of
    "In Kafka's story, a person metamorphoses into a bug"
    - transfigure, transmogrify
     
  2. Change in outward structure or looks
    "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle"
    - transform, transmute

Derived forms: metamorphosed, metamorphosing

Type of: change, change by reversal, reverse, turn

Encyclopedia: Metamorphose

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