Metamorphose
verb
To change in form or character.
The caterpillar will eventually metamorphose into a beautiful butterfly.
Often appears as...
- metamorphose into
- begin to metamorphose
verb
To change or cause to change completely in nature, form or character.
His vision has metamorphosed our company from a start-up into a multinational corporation.
Often appears as...
- metamorphose into
- metamorphose from
verb
To change in an extraordinary way, especially in a way that makes you better or more attractive.
With a new wardrobe and makeup, she metamorphosed into a stunning beauty.
Often appears as...
- metamorphose into
- suddenly metamorphose
verb
To change in form or character.
The caterpillar will eventually metamorphose into a beautiful butterfly.
Often appears as...
- metamorphose into
- begin to metamorphose
verb
To change or cause to change completely in nature, form or character.
His vision has metamorphosed our company from a start-up into a multinational corporation.
Often appears as...
- metamorphose into
- metamorphose from
verb
To change in an extraordinary way, especially in a way that makes you better or more attractive.
With a new wardrobe and makeup, she metamorphosed into a stunning beauty.
Often appears as...
- metamorphose into
- suddenly metamorphose
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Transformation
Used for describing a change in physical shape or structure, often in nature.
The worm-like creature will metamorphose into an elegant dragonfly.
Pro Tip 2/3Figurative Usage
Also used metaphorically to describe profound changes in someone's life or behavior.
After the training, he metamorphosed into a confident public speaker.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Can convey positive feelings about the change being described.
Under her mentorship, the shy intern metamorphosed into a key player.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Transformation
Used for describing a change in physical shape or structure, often in nature.
The worm-like creature will metamorphose into an elegant dragonfly.
Pro Tip 2/3Figurative Usage
Also used metaphorically to describe profound changes in someone's life or behavior.
After the training, he metamorphosed into a confident public speaker.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Can convey positive feelings about the change being described.
Under her mentorship, the shy intern metamorphosed into a key player.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Transformation
Used for describing a change in physical shape or structure, often in nature.
The worm-like creature will metamorphose into an elegant dragonfly.
Pro Tip 2/3Figurative Usage
Also used metaphorically to describe profound changes in someone's life or behavior.
After the training, he metamorphosed into a confident public speaker.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
Can convey positive feelings about the change being described.
Under her mentorship, the shy intern metamorphosed into a key player.
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Morgan Spurlock: The...
I like things that are weird. I like weird things. Tell me about the "why" phase -- what does that do for us? What is the machete? What pupa stage are you in now? Why is it important to reboot? What does the red represent? Tell me a little bit about that part. A little more about you that is not who you are. What are some other metamorphoses that you've had?
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A simple way to tell...
have completely different kinds of mouths than their adult versions, like caterpillars, which use chewing mouthparts to devour leaves before metamorphosing into butterflies and moths with siphoning mouthparts. Still, mouthpart identification can, for the most part, help scientists—and you —categorize insects.
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Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...
The eggs hatched and the young wasps devoured the caterpillar alive before bursting out of its body. See what I mean? Now, the caterpillar didn't die. Some of the wasps seemed to stay behind and controlled it into defending their siblings which are metamorphosing into adults within those cocoons.
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The secret lives of baby...
So, what happens when larvae do find a suitable coral reef? Do they risk it all in one jump from the water column, hoping to land in exactly the right spot to settle down and metamorphose into adults? Not exactly. Instead, larvae appear to have more of a bungee system.
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Why isn't the world...
Inside a tunnel, ball, or pat, once the larvae hatch, they consume the dung before metamorphosing into a pupa and then an adult beetle. Besides clearing dung, the actions of these beetles have considerable ecological importance.
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The tragic myth of the...
never to resurface. Phaethon’s sisters gathered on the riverbank to weep, gradually metamorphosing into poplar trees that leaked precious amber into the water. Zeus repaired the Earth and created an everlasting memorial,
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The myth of Zeus' test -...
even as their house transformed below. It grew larger and sprouted marble pillars and steps. Legends etched themselves onto its grand doors. Their rickety cottage had metamorphosed into a gleaming temple for the gods.
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Coral Reef Ocean...
will develop into a coral larvae which can then when it's ready settle back down on a reef and metamorphose into a new polyp and then grow and grow cloning itself to build the reef on top of
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Nancy Kanwisher: A...
Nothing. Nothing? Okay. I'm going to do it one more time. Look at my face. One, two, three. You just turned into somebody else. Your face metamorphosed.
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How Life Begins in the...
but others, like me, move on. A few weeks after I was conceived, I decided to settle down, and metamorphosed into a recognizable urchin.
Video examples
Morgan Spurlock: The...
I like things that are weird. I like weird things. Tell me about the "why" phase -- what does that do for us? What is the machete? What pupa stage are you in now? Why is it important to reboot? What does the red represent? Tell me a little bit about that part. A little more about you that is not who you are. What are some other metamorphoses that you've had?
Video examples
A simple way to tell...
have completely different kinds of mouths than their adult versions, like caterpillars, which use chewing mouthparts to devour leaves before metamorphosing into butterflies and moths with siphoning mouthparts. Still, mouthpart identification can, for the most part, help scientists—and you —categorize insects.
Video examples
Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...
The eggs hatched and the young wasps devoured the caterpillar alive before bursting out of its body. See what I mean? Now, the caterpillar didn't die. Some of the wasps seemed to stay behind and controlled it into defending their siblings which are metamorphosing into adults within those cocoons.
Video examples
The secret lives of baby...
So, what happens when larvae do find a suitable coral reef? Do they risk it all in one jump from the water column, hoping to land in exactly the right spot to settle down and metamorphose into adults? Not exactly. Instead, larvae appear to have more of a bungee system.
Video examples
Why isn't the world...
Inside a tunnel, ball, or pat, once the larvae hatch, they consume the dung before metamorphosing into a pupa and then an adult beetle. Besides clearing dung, the actions of these beetles have considerable ecological importance.
Video examples
The tragic myth of the...
never to resurface. Phaethon’s sisters gathered on the riverbank to weep, gradually metamorphosing into poplar trees that leaked precious amber into the water. Zeus repaired the Earth and created an everlasting memorial,
Video examples
The myth of Zeus' test -...
even as their house transformed below. It grew larger and sprouted marble pillars and steps. Legends etched themselves onto its grand doors. Their rickety cottage had metamorphosed into a gleaming temple for the gods.
Video examples
Coral Reef Ocean...
will develop into a coral larvae which can then when it's ready settle back down on a reef and metamorphose into a new polyp and then grow and grow cloning itself to build the reef on top of
Video examples
Nancy Kanwisher: A...
Nothing. Nothing? Okay. I'm going to do it one more time. Look at my face. One, two, three. You just turned into somebody else. Your face metamorphosed.
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How Life Begins in the...
but others, like me, move on. A few weeks after I was conceived, I decided to settle down, and metamorphosed into a recognizable urchin.
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Lapo Elkann
Italian Businessman
The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.
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Camille Paglia
American Author
High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.
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Harold Rosenberg
American Writer
The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.
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William Mougayar
Canadian Businessman
What Bitcoin started is metamorphosing into something bigger: a 'crypto-tech'-driven economy with its own value creation, not unlike the Web's own economy. Welcome to the cryptoconomy.
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Tom Hardy
English Actor
I have to make my bones with Hollywood to get in. And when I do maybe I'll metamorphose from Mr. Muscles or whatever it is I am now and become an irascible tosser.
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Soren Kierkegaard
Danish Philosopher
The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
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Tom Payne
English Actor
There's years of growth and emotions in that hair. And it gets cut off and you're like, 'I'm really metamorphosing into something else. I'm emerging.
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Jack Kemp
American Politician
I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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Taylor Negron
American Actor
I love the idea of metamorphosing and changing, the legalized insanity of acting.
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Lapo Elkann
Italian Businessman
The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.
Quote examples
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.
Quote examples
Camille Paglia
American Author
High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.
Quote examples
Harold Rosenberg
American Writer
The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.
Quote examples
William Mougayar
Canadian Businessman
What Bitcoin started is metamorphosing into something bigger: a 'crypto-tech'-driven economy with its own value creation, not unlike the Web's own economy. Welcome to the cryptoconomy.
Quote examples
Tom Hardy
English Actor
I have to make my bones with Hollywood to get in. And when I do maybe I'll metamorphose from Mr. Muscles or whatever it is I am now and become an irascible tosser.
Quote examples
Soren Kierkegaard
Danish Philosopher
The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
Quote examples
Tom Payne
English Actor
There's years of growth and emotions in that hair. And it gets cut off and you're like, 'I'm really metamorphosing into something else. I'm emerging.
Quote examples
Jack Kemp
American Politician
I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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Taylor Negron
American Actor
I love the idea of metamorphosing and changing, the legalized insanity of acting.
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