metamorphose

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Caterpillars cannot incubate in the human stomach and metamorphose into a butterflies.

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change completely the nature or appearance of; "In Kafka's story, a person metamorphoses into a bug"; "The treatment and diet transfigured her into a beautiful young woman"; "Jesus was transfigured after his resurrection"

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verb

change in outward structure or looks; "He transformed into a monster"; "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle"

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verb

change in outward structure or looks; "He transformed into a monster"; "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle"

Example sentences

Caterpillars cannot incubate in the human stomach and metamorphose into a butterflies.

But this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia, which is endemic among academic economists.

Even if I could by gradual degrees be transformed into a bat, nothing in my present constitution enables me to imagine what the experiences of such a future stage of myself thus metamorphosed would be like.

You either get at one extreme the MBA trained to think producing sugared beverages is equivalent to producing software, and at the other the formerly great coder that couldn't metamorphose himself to be able to manage people.

Some insect metamorphose; crustaceans rebuild complete skeletons - energetically, it's almost certainly hell of a lot cheaper to occasionally replace bad bits than it is to procreate and lose the previous generation.

In attempting to debunk this sort of statement, he has literally written the following: "In the hands of RationalWiki generally, and RationalWiki leader David Gerard particularly ..., [the fictional version of the Roko's Basilisk event] somehow metamorphosed into a Singularity cult that tried to get people to believe a Pascal's Wager argument to donate to their AI god on pain of torture.