metamorphose
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metamorphose
- /ˌmɛtəˈmɔːˌfəʊz/ UK
- /ˌmɛtəˈmɔɹˌfoʊz/ US
- /ˌmɛtəˈmɔɹˌfoʊs/ US
Where it comes from
From French métamorphoser, from Old French metamorphose, from Latin metamorphōsis; see metamorphosis.
verb metamorphoses · metamorphosing · metamorphosed
- Of a moth or insect, to undergo metamorphosis.
- To undergo some transformation. In fact, perhaps this is the pure and perfect incest: the brother realising that the sister’s virginity must be destroyed in order to have existed at all, taking that virginity in the person of the brother-in-law, the man whom he would be if he could become, metamorphose into, the lover, the husband
- To transform (something) so that it has a completely different appearance.
