to morph
- verb
- /mɔrf/
- The caterpillar will morph into a butterfly after its transformation.
- continuously morphing
- bodies morphed
- movement morphed
Link catches Rhett slowly morphing into an eagle.
- Link catches Rhett slowly morphing into an eagle.
- Her face and mine kind of morphed into into one.
- And So what Hollywood was morphed into something else.
- And from what you've come from and what you've morphed into, I mean, it's amazing.
- So Got Milk has morphed into Got Bush.
- And so using all of that with NASA, we made morphing airplanes.
- But that's the bread and butter of a writer where you're gradually morphing through evolving ideas.
- This simple function morphs itself into pseudo random generation.
- My outline just seems to morph into a treatment.
- Narcissistic relationships are dangerous echo chambers and can quickly morph and distort your reality.
- And then that kind of morphed into bioavailability concerns.
Examples
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Now, says Guerra, the practice of recruiting votes has morphed into voter fraud, plain and simple.
Academic text (2002) -
Gradually, the structure of the activity would morph as the other family members began their own constructions.
Academic text (2014) -
Yeah, if we can actually, like, collaborate and morph it into one event, that would be amazing.
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Also, when neutrinos are flying through space, they morph from one kind to another.
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The me too movement is morphing into Time's Up.
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More recently, Lagos has morphed into a city associated with the contemporary art of Africa.
Academic text (2015) -
The resulting crisis is morphing into the worst humanitarian disaster in memory in the Western Hemisphere.
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Soon after Pakistan was formed in 1947, Jamaat morphed from a religious movement into a political party.
Academic text (2005) -
As capital flows dried up, the crisis soon morphed into a crushing recession in the real economy.
Academic text (2018) -
Over time, the small startup began to morph into a major technology company.
Synonyms
Change something a lot so it looks or works very differently
To change from one state or activity to another
To change the form of something so it looks different
To become a different shape
To change something into a different form or material
Change completely in form or appearance
To become a different shape or look
To change a person or thing so they look more beautiful and spiritual
To change something into a very different form, often as if by magic
To change your body or look into another form, often an animal
Change into another form, like a person or animal, by magic
Antonyms
How Much
Surface Forms
Etymology
Morph comes from an old Greek word morphē meaning 'shape' or 'form'. You can also see the same root in metamorphosis, which means a big change of shape, so to morph is to change smoothly from one form to another.