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Metamorphose

verb

(past & past part. metamorphosed; pres. part. metamorphosing)

Change completely the nature or appearance of. Synonyms: transfigure, transmogrify. "The treatment and diet transfigured her into a beautiful young woman" , "Jesus was transfigured after his resurrection"

Change in outward structure or looks. Synonyms: transform, transmute. "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle"

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"Metamorphose" Quotes from Famous Books

... changed into the scene of the fair or the daily market; and the vicinity of the sea, or the navigable river, no longer needed as a protection against the attacks of surrounding enemies, has been taken advantage of to let in the wealth of many distant climes, and to metamorphose the straggling assemblage of mud cottages into a thronged and widespread city—the proud abode of industry, wealth, elegance, ...

— John Rutherford, the White Chief • George Lillie Craik

... excellent poet, the late Rev. William Crowe, the incongruity of these metaphors is thus noticed:—"Within the space of three or four couplets, he transforms a man into as many different animals. Allow him but the compass of three lines, and he will metamorphose him from a wolf into a harpy, and in three more he will ...

— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. II - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore

Words linked to "Metamorphose" : transfigure, transform, reverse, change, turn, aurify, become, change by reversal, transmute, transmogrify