METASTASISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does metastasise mean? 

• METASTASISE (verb)
  The verb METASTASISE has 1 sense:

1. spread throughout the body

  Familiarity information: METASTASISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• METASTASISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they metastasise    ... he / she / it metastasises   
Past simple: metastasised   
Past participle: metastasised   
-ing form: metastasising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spread throughout the body

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

metastasise; metastasize

Context example:

the cancer had metastasized and the patient could not be saved

Hypernyms (to "metastasise" is one way to...):

distribute; spread (distribute or disperse widely)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

 Context examples 

Adult fibrosarcomas may recur and metastasise to the lungs and bones.

(Adult Fibrosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The DFT1 cancer first arose in a single individual devil several decades ago, but rather than dying together with this devil, the cancer survived by ‘metastasising’ into different devils.

(Human anti-cancer drugs could help treat transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils, University of Cambridge)