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  • verb Alternative spelling of metastasize.

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  • verb spread throughout the body

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Examples

  • Ivul is an eccentric, and exasperating in some ways, but I found something powerfully and unexpectedly real about the story's central conceit: that a single calamitous event, wounding a young man's pride, can metastasise into a family tragedy.

    Ivul 2010

  • Democracy by its very nature both hosts and is vulnerable to a limitless range of counter-narratives, ranging from tiny political movements to global meta-narratives which, in being given freedom to thrive, may at any time metastasise into the illness that kills the host.

    AN ECONOMIC WONDERLAND: DERIVATIVE CASTLES BUILT ON SAND 2009

  • Gulags in history tend to metastasise, becoming ever larger and more secretive, ever more deadly and formalised.

    Naomi Wolf: Ten Steps To Close Down an Open Society 2008

  • The problems happen when a small malignancy is ignored and allowed to metastasise due to neglect.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • Johnny gets angry texts from a spurned lover - but these nasty signs never metastasise dramatically into a situation that confronts or challenges Johnny.

    The Guardian World News Peter Bradshaw 2010

  • VEGF is the key driver of tumour angiogenesis - a fundamental process required for a tumour to grow and to spread (metastasise) to other parts of the body.

    WebWire | Recent Headlines 2010

  • VEGF is the key driver of tumour angiogenesis - a fundamental process required for a tumour to grow and to spread (metastasise) to other parts of the body.

    WebWire | Recent Headlines 2010

  • VEGF is the key driver of tumour angiogenesis - a fundamental process required for a tumour to grow and to spread (metastasise) to other parts of the body.

    WebWire | Recent Headlines 2010

  • Lobular carcinoma is more likely to metastasise to the gastrointestinal tract.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2009

  • They can metastasise to other organs in the body, but it can take years before they start to become problematic.

    unknown title 2009

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