metamorphosize

English

Alternative forms

• metamorphosise (UK)

Etymology

metamorphose +‎ -ize

Verb

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

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

     "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."