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- Word Combinations (noun), Word Explorer, Word Parts
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metamorphoses |
| definition 1: |
a complete change of form, structure, substance, appearance, or character; transformation.
The vacant lot went through a metamorphosis as the new playground was built.- synonyms:
- change, conversion, metastasis, permutation, transformation, transmutation
- similar words:
- alteration, modification, mutation, transfiguration, translation
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| definition 2: |
the form that results from such a change.
- synonyms:
- permutation
- similar words:
- conversion, mutation, transformation
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| definition 3: |
the developmental changes in living organisms, such as the successive stages from caterpillar to butterfly or from tadpole to frog.
- similar words:
- change, conversion, development, metastasis, permutation, transformation, transmutation
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| related words: |
amendment, becoming, process |
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