Definition of “mutate”

Usage examples

• Her misty pupils constantly bobble and mutate behind the lenses like globules in a lava lamp.

  Alex George, LOVE YOU MADLY (2002)

• The fake viruses could also be safer than real ones, because in theory they cannot mutate into a fully infectious state.

  New Scientist (1998)

• INFORMATION Regulations on travel to Tibet mutate like the phases of the moon.

  Globe and Mail (2003)

• `But tea tree and geranium oil are very complex and it's hard for the superbug to mutate against them.

  Sun, News of the World (2004)

• The cancer itself will not start to grow until the cells concerned suddenly mutate.

  Niwa, Dr Yuki & Hanssen, Maurice, Protection for Life (1989)