metamorphosize

English

Alternative forms

• metamorphosise (non-Oxford British English)

Etymology

From metamorphose +‎ -ize.

Verb

metamorphosize (third-person singular simple present metamorphosizes, present participle metamorphosizing, simple past and past participle metamorphosized)

1. (nonstandard) To undergo the process of metamorphosis; to metamorphose.
   • 1995, Joyce Rupp, Little Pieces of Light...: Darkness and Personal Growth, page 36:

     "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."