metamorphose
verb (used with object)
to change the form or nature of; transform.
had metamorphosed
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past perfectof metamorphose.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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By 2024, the Times would later admit, his enemies had metamorphosed him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
His actual piece of the bucolic California landscape had metamorphosed into painted pictures of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2017
Kafka was quite vague about what kind of insect or beast Gregor Samsa had metamorphosed into.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2015
By this time the angry young satirist had metamorphosed into comfortable middle age and become part of the very establishment he had lampooned so effectively 30 years before.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2013
The weird crawling form into which he had metamorphosed was now hardly an inch higher than the surface of the floor.
From G-r-r-r...! by Robert Donald Locke
