noun🔗ShareA change in nature, form, or quality."The school's shift to online learning represented a significant metastasis in its educational approach. "qualitymedicinebiologydiseaseChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body, specifically the development of a secondary area of disease remote from the original site, as with some cancers."The doctor explained that the cancer had undergone metastasis, spreading from her breast to her bones. "medicinediseasebodyorganismphysiologybiologyanatomyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe spread of a harmful event to another location, like the metastasis of a cancer."The doctor was concerned about the cancer's metastasis to other parts of her body. "medicinediseasebiologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareDenying adversaries' arguments and turning the arguments back on them."The politician's skillful metastasis completely deflated his opponent; he took the attack about being "weak on defense" and cleverly used it to highlight the opponent's own history of budget cuts to the military. "logiccommunicationlanguageChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading