VERB | body | metastasize, metastasise | spread throughout the body |
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Sounds | mahtae'stahsay.z | |
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Rhymes | actualize ... womanize: 266 rhymes with ayz... |
Meaning | Spread throughout the body. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP | |
Example | "the cancer had metastasized and the patient could not be saved" | |
Synonym | metastasise | |
Broader | spread, distribute | Distribute or disperse widely |
Spanish | metastatizar | |
Catalan | metastatitzar | |
Nouns | metastasis | the spreading of a disease (especially cancer) to another part of the body |
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