The Collaborative International Dictionary
metastasize \metastasize\ v. to spread from one part of the body to other parts, and grow there; to spread by metastasis[3]; -- said of cancer cells.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1826, from metastasis + -ize. Related: Metastasized; metastasizing.
Wiktionary
vb. (context medicine of a disease or tumour English) To spread to other sites in the body; to undergo metastasis.
WordNet
v. spread throughout the body; "the cancer had metastasized and the patient could not be saved" [syn: metastasise]
Usage examples of "metastasize".
And within that whirlpool of inchoate pain, the horror of the impending encounter with the enemy began to metastasize into something else.
Yet there was still no word from the pilots, and as the minutes passed in silence, wide-eyed looks of deep concern began to metastasize into mutters of anger and insurrection.
She blamed Mitch entirely and she kept that blame inside her, never saying a word outright, letting that blame grow and metastasize like a malignant tumor.
Even when Richard died, Janice had not allowed grief to metastasize into depression, though she loved him greatly.
Zap and you have cancer of the cervix, rotting ovaries, one of those female things, and it metastasizes overnight and you come apart, turning into a puddle of stinking fluids in the county hospital.
The biofilter probably got any off their clothes and skin, but the fungus was too metastasized in their bodies.
He was suffering from bone cancer in its most advanced metastasized stage.
Of all the towns packed with all the impotent intensive-care facilities in the world, Ressler chose that one to return his metastasized cells to at the end, as they ran him back into randomness.
What they actually wanted, though, was a large sample of metastasizing cells so they could perfect the biggest selling point of the Health-Guard: cancer protection.
Later, at the royal palace, with that same blade, there had been the same, sudden, clumsy fear of discovery, fear clotting into panic, the panic embolizing to confusion, and the confusion metastasizing into fear again.
The biofilter probably got any off their clothes and skin, but the fungus was too metastasized in their bodies.
Borderline malnutrition, osteoarthritis, chronic subdermal lesions, and a tumor that would have metastasized and killed him within a few years.
It was apeshit insanity trying to bore up into my forehead and spread through my brain like a metastasizing carcinoma.
Zap and you have cancer of the cervix, rotting ovaries, one of those female things, and it metastasizes overnight and you come apart, turning into a puddle of stinking fluids in the county hospital.
With Harry Dunne mysteriously vanished, for whatever reason, Lanchester was the one man in government with both the power and the independence of mind to do something about the Directorate's metastasizing power.