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What is the verb for metamorphosis?

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metamorphose
  1. (of a moth or insect, intransitive) to undergo metamorphosis.
  2. (transitive) To transform (something) so that it has a completely different appearance.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Then, after thirteen or seventeen years, the nymphs crawl to the surface and metamorphose into red-eyed adults.”
      “Also see fishlike tadpoles that will later metamorphose into American bullfrogs, sprouting legs and losing their tails.”
      “While encysted, the glochidia will metamorphose, allowing the organs to develop more like an adult's organs.”
metamorphosize
metamorphize
  1. (transitive) To transform or change; metamorphose.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It also raises the question of whether Apple will be able to metamorphize as services and software move online around it.”
      “As the tippling mourners metamorphize into drunken revelers a fight breaks out.”
metamorphosise
  1. (Britain, nonstandard) To metamorphose.
  2. Examples:
    1. “It was funny to consider what things in life inspired a person to suddenly metamorphosise into something else.”
metamorphosises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metamorphosise
metamorphosizes
metamorphoses
metamorphizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metamorphize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Opened to the dizzying possibilities of syntax and syllogism, the pornographic image may be heightened to the point where it metamorphizes into pure paralogism.”
metamorphosised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of metamorphosise
metamorphosized
metamorphized
metamorphosed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of metamorphose
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Also on a hillside to the north is a contact metamorphosed bed rich in small, dark blue, platy corundum crystals.”
      “The tiny, freshly metamorphosed wood froglets then leave the water for a life on land.”
      “These supracrustal rocks are intruded by dolerite dykes that have been deformed and metamorphosed together with the country rock.”
metamorphosising
  1. present participle of metamorphosise
metamorphosizing
metamorphizing
metamorphosing
  1. present participle of metamorphose
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Most metamorphosing malacostracans have a nauplius larva, but in many species eggs hatch into zoea larvae.”
      “Generally speaking, the eggs are laid in water with the larvae emerging and metamorphosing into adults a few weeks later.”
      “This property of lycanthropy, or metamorphosing into a beast, probably dates back to man's creation.”
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