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."

Verb

(en verb)

To change greatly the appearance or form of.

The alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.

* Shakespeare

Love may transform me to an oyster.

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To change the nature, condition or function of; to change in nature, disposition, heart, character, etc.; to convert.

* Bible, Romans xii. 2

Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.

(mathematics) To subject to a transformation; to change into another form without altering the value.

(electricity) To subject to the action of a transformer.

(genetics) To subject (a cell) to transformation.

To undergo a transformation.