morphed
past simple and past participle ofmorph
morph
verb[IorT]
uk/mɔːf/us/mɔːrf/morphverb[I or T](CHANGE)
tograduallychange, orchangesomeone or something, from one thing to another:
When someonebringsuppoliticsat aparty, acasualconversationcanquicklymorphintoanuglyargument.
HegrewupwatchinghiselderbrotherJoe morphfromadifficultchildtoadrugaddict.
Sheclaimsthemediaandsocietymake apersontryto morphtheirbodyinto anunnaturalsizeorweight.
- Stemcellshave theabilityto morph into avarietyofcellswithspecificpurposes, such asnervecellsin thebrain.
- Thetitleof thebookwilllikelychangeas thecentralideamorphs overtime.
- With the toy-and-treatbonanzaof theholidaysapproaching,eventhe mostwell-behavedkidscan morph intomonsters.
Changing
- about-face
- about-turn
- alterable
- altered
- alternate
- chop
- commute
- modulation
- move on
- move the goalpostsidiom
- move with the timesidiom
- new
- pivot
- shakesomeoneup
- stead
- steep
- steepness
- sway
- switch up
- switcheroo
morphverb[I or T](COMPUTER IMAGE)
tograduallychangeoneimageinto another, orcombinethem, using acomputerprogram:
Herboyfriendused acomputerto morphphotosof herfaceonto the actor'sbody.
Thevideoshoweda man morphingintoatiger.
- Theadvertisements, which morph theracialcharacteristicsof Britishcelebrities, wereconceivedby thecommissionforracialequality, whosecampaignshave areputationfor usingshocktactics.
Computer programming & software
- abandonware
- ad-blocker
- ad-blocking
- adware
- analytics
- cheat
- facial recognition
- facial recognition software
- femtech
- file system
- garbage collector
- infection
- installer
- planner
- software package
- spellchecker
- splash screen
- story mode
- syntactic
- syntactically
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Machines - parts
Examplesofmorphed
morphed
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Many of these no longer exist, or havemorphedinto other products.
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Distilled partials having the same identifier aremorphedby interpolating their frequency, amplitude and bandwidth envelopes according to a specified morphing function.
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For me, a lecture has become a performance and multimedia show, while a seminar for undergraduates hasmorphedinto various group sections and group projects.
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In the media most of those who marched either had only a pleasant walk in mind ormorphedinto reformers as they went along.
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However, the emotional expressions weremorphedwith a neutral rather than a different emotional expression.
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The agencymorphedfrom a caricature of the ills of bureaucracy into a model of effective federal administration.
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Ravers who were considered to be 'at risk youth' were absorbed into a normalising order as ravemorphedinto a state-sanctioned leisure activity.
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Within the sets of games played after either a selfish or unselfish response, players were still more likely to trust facesmorphedto resemble themselves.
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In contrast, imagine that traffic lights graduallymorphedfrom red to green, and that drivers decided whether their light was green enough to go.
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The second explored facial processing biases usingmorphedangry-neutral and happy-neutral emotional expressions that varied in intensity.
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Patients who were candidates for temporal lobectomy because of intractable epilepsy were asked to identify amorphed(computerized combination) of their own face and that of a famous person.
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Has discrimination diminished or simplymorphedinto new forms?
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Their initial function was to provide valuable information to investors, but over time, they havemorphedinto supreme and uncontrollable arbiters of the international financial markets.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
The label started as a record store andmorphedinto a record label.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, since then, it hasmorphedinto a major cultural event for the city.
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- go ahead
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- goal
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