METASTASIZE

metastasize, metastasise

(verb) spread throughout the body; “the cancer had metastasized and the patient could not be saved”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

metastasize (third-person singular simple present metastasizes, present participle metastasizing, simple past and past participle metastasized)

(medicine, of a disease or tumour) To spread to other sites in the body; to undergo metastasis.

Source: Wiktionary



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