Metastasize

Quick meaning: Metastasize is a verb meaning Of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis (“a secondary focus away from the primary site”) in (a body organ).

Meaning

Of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis (“a secondary focus away from the primary site”) in (a body organ).

More Meanings

1. To disseminate or spread (something, often an undesirable thing), especially in a destructive manner.
2. Of a thing, often one which is undesirable: to disseminate or spread, especially in a destructive manner.
3. Of a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to undergo metastasis (“spreading from a primary site to one or more other sites in the body”).

Example Sentences

Your lump could be a secondary cancer metastasized from the bowel. I had a patient like that not long ago.

On other screens are closeups of skin pores, before and after, details of regimes for everything, your hands, your neck, your thighs. Your elbows, especially your elbows: aging begins at the elbows and metastasizes.

In a broader sense, criticism as a form is in trouble. And celebrities like [Ariana] Grande, like [Michael] Che, like [Olivia] Munn, who swat at it to the delight of their fans, concerningly seem to metastasize the problem.

"I remember the first time he woke up throwing up, and my first thought wasn't, 'Oh he has the stomach flu,'" she [Rene McNall-Knapp] said. "It was, 'Oh, it's gone to his brain, and it's metastasized his brain, and he's throwing up because of that.'"

Word Forms

• metastasizes
• metastasizing
• metastasized
• metastasise
• metastatize

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