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The verb for becoming something else without admitting you changed your mind.
means To change smoothly from one form into another, especially gradually or seamlessly.
from Clipped from 'metamorphosis,' which traces to Greek 'metamorphoun' — 'meta' (change) plus 'morphe' (form). The short form 'morph' got its real boost in the 1980s–90s from computer-graphics jargon, when software learned to melt one image into another frame by frame — a trick movies loved enough to make 'morphing' a household word.
- origin
- short for metamorphosis, borrowed by 90s CGI nerds
- pop debut
- Michael Jackson's Black or White face-morph video, 1991
- tech cousin
- image morphing birthed the T-1000 in Terminator 2
- linguistic irony
- a word that itself morphed from a longer one