Definition of "metastasizes" [metastasizes]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metastasize. (verb)

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• "As you drive north from metropolitan Phoenix, you will see the inevitable sprawl that kind of metastasizes across the landscape."
• "A malignancy in situ (Hamas in Gaza) does not tend to become more benign after it grows and metastasizes (Hamas in control of the PA)."
• "The damage that his unthinking, sadistic, fuck-the-world, bully-boy policy on torture has done to the U. S.'s stature around the world is like a malignant cancer deep in the gut of how we will go on as a world leader — sickening and weakening us from within but leaving us able for a time to stomp about a bit before it metastasizes and leaves us politically bedridden."