Wordnet 3.0
VERB (1)
1.
spread throughout the body;
- Example: "the cancer had metastasized and the patient could not be saved"[syn: metastasize, metastasise]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
metastasize \metastasize\ v.
to spread from one part of the body to other parts, and grow
there; to spread by metastasis[3]; -- said of cancer cells.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
metastasize
v 1: spread throughout the body; "the cancer had metastasized
and the patient could not be saved" [syn: metastasize,
metastasise]