| 单词 | metamorphose |
| 释义 | metamorphose (once / 5789 pages) v If you've ever seen a caterpillar emerge from its cocoon transformed into a butterfly, you've watched it metamorphose, or change completely. Use the verb metamorphose to describe a total transformation, like an egg into a bird or a seed into a tomato plant. When someone or something changes in appearance, they also metamorphose, the way a messy kid does when he tucks in his shirt and combs his hair. The origins of the word metamorphose lie in the Greek meta, or "change," and morphe, "form." WORD FAMILYmetamorphose: metamorphosed, metamorphosing USAGE EXAMPLESYour stepdaughter may well be metamorphosing into an unbearable, lazy, superficial adult, or she could simply be behaving like the rest of her contemporaries. The Guardian(Nov 27, 2016) One favorite of Mr. Topintzis, the Klinkhammer, is traditionally made from seal fur and rooster neck feathers to mimic a metamorphosing caddis fly. Wall Street Journal(Oct 14, 2016) “It’s capturing that age when you are constantly creating and transforming yourself. It’s about people metamorphosing.” The Guardian(Oct 12, 2016) 1v change in outward structure or looks The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle Syn|Hypo|Hyper transform, transmute aurify transform into gold become, turnundergo a change or development boil down, come down, reducebe the essential element choke, suffocatebecome stultified, suppressed, or stifled nucleateform into a nucleus add up, amount, comedevelop into change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 2v change completely the nature or appearance of Syn|Hyper transfigure, transmogrify change by reversal, reverse, turn change to the contrary |
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