<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object):<ul><li>to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.</li><li>to subject to metamorphosis or metamorphism.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the process of changing in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely.</li><li>a transformation or change in form, structure, or substance.</li></ul>