Definition of "metastasizing" [metastasizing]

• Present participle of metastasize. (verb)

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• "The process known as metastasizing is responsible for the spread of cancer cells such that the initial cancer tumor can cause the growth of new tumors in various parts of the body."
• "But for now, the Wukan narrative stands as a vindication of poor people's challenge to metastasizing inequality and parasitic corruption across China."
• "Stark contrast to the headlines I was reading at that very moment -- the metastasizing economic crisis, anguish of joblessness, with it, the suppressed potential of millions -- societal restlessness; the no-end-in-sight feel of the Eurozone debt crisis who'd ever thought we'd be bailing out governments?"