metamorphosize
verbEtymology From metamorphose + -ize.
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Nonstandard To undergo the process of metamorphosis; to metamorphose.
- "Sitting in the darkness and waiting doesn't come naturally for us even though we "sat" for nine months in our mother's womb, a development which is as mysterious and marvelous as that of a caterpillar metamorphosizing into a butterfly."1995, Joyce Rupp, Little Pieces of Light...: Darkness and Personal Growth, page 36: