1. Change completely the nature or appearance of
   "In Kafka's story, a person metamorphoses into a bug"
   - transfigure, transmogrify 
2. Change in outward structure or looks
   "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle"
   - transform, transmute

Derived forms: metamorphosed, metamorphosing

Type of: change, change by reversal, reverse, turn

Encyclopedia: Metamorphose

• parental quality
• parentally
• parented
• parenteral
• parenterally
• parenthesis
• parenthesis-free notation
• parenthesise
• parenthesize
• parenthetic
• parenthetical
• parenthetical expression
• parenthetically
• parenthood
• parentless
• parer
• paresis
• paresthesia
• paretic
• Pareto
• pareve
• parfait
• parfait glass
• parfleche
• parfocal