Usually means: Spread of cancer to new areas.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word metastasize:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. metastasize: Merriam-Webster
  2. metastasize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. metastasize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. metastasize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. metastasize: Vocabulary.com
  6. metastasize: Wordnik
  7. metastasize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. metastasize: Wiktionary
  9. metastasize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. metastasize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. metastasize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. metastasize: Dictionary.com
  13. Metastasize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. metastasize: Rhymezone
  15. metastasize: FreeDictionary.org
  16. metastasize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. metastasize: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. metastasize: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. metastasize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. metastasize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Metastasize: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  5. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Cancer Glossary (No longer online)
  8. metastasize: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  9. metastasize: Medical dictionary
  10. Metastasize: Drug Medical Dictionary
  11. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (metastasize)

verb:  (intransitive, medicine, of a disease or tumor) To spread to other sites in the body; to undergo metastasis.
verb:  (transitive, medicine, of a disease or tumor) To form a metastasis in (an organ).
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To spread, especially in a destructive manner.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To spread or disseminate (something), especially in a destructive manner.

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