What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Metamorphize vs Metamorphosize - What's the difference?

metamorphize | metamorphosize |

As verbs the difference between metamorphize and metamorphosize

is that metamorphize is to transform or change; metamorphose while metamorphosize is (us|nonstandard) to undergo the process of metamorphosis; to metamorphose.

metamorphize

English

Verb

(metamorphiz)
  • To transform or change; metamorphose.

    • Derived terms

    * metamorphization

    References

    * *

    metamorphosize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * metamorphosise (UK)

    Verb

  • (US, nonstandard) To undergo the process of metamorphosis; to metamorphose.
  • * 1995 , Joyce Rupp, Little Pieces of Light...: Darkness and Personal Growth Page 36 [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0809135124&id=wJHngNmPRTcC&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=metamorphosizing+butterfly&sig=rI9a9fDJ1FI3X0-NauDkUwXqvHw]
    • "Sitting in the darkness and waiting doesn't come naturally for us even though we "sat" for nine months in our mother's womb, a development which is as mysterious and marvelous as that of a caterpillar metamorphosizing into a butterfly."