metamorphose
verbVerb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they metamorphose | |
he / she / it metamorphoses | |
past simple metamorphosed | |
past participle metamorphosed | |
-ing form metamorphosing |
- [intransitive] metamorphose (from something) (into something) (
biology ) (of an insect or an amphibian, such as a frog)生物 to change from its young form to its adult form in two or more separate stages; to experience metamorphosis (使)变形,变化,发生质变 - [intransitive] metamorphose (from something) (into something) (formal)
to change into something completely different, especially over a period of time synonym transform(使)变形,变化,发生质变
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French métamorphoser, from métamorphose via Latin from Greek metamorphōsis, from metamorphoun ‘transform, change shape’.