metastasize
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me·tas·ta·size
(mĭ-tăs'tə-sīz') 
intr.v., -sized, -siz·ing, -siz·es.
intr.v., -sized, -siz·ing, -siz·es.
- To be transmitted or transferred by metastasis.
- To be changed or transformed, especially dangerously: "a need for love that would metastasize into an insatiable craving for attention" (Michiko Kakutani).
- To spread, especially destructively: "[disinformation] ... that even now continues to metastasize ... to such a degree that myth threatens to overthrow history" (Gore Vidal).
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me·tas·ta·size
(mə-tăs'tə-sīz')
v., -sized, -siz·ing, -siz·es.
v., -sized, -siz·ing, -siz·es.
To be transmitted or transferred by or as if by metastasis.
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metastasize
To form new foci of disease in a distant part by metastasis.
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