Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To change the shape of; transform.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To render misshapen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
metamorphose ;change theshape of;transform . - verb transitive To put out of shape;
distort ; makemisshapen ;disfigure .
Etymologies
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From Middle English forshapen, forschapen ("to transform"), from Old English forscapan ("to transform"), from Proto-Germanic *fra- + *skapjanan, equivalent to for- + shape. Cognate with German verschaffen ("to provide, supply, furnish"), Swedish förskapa ("to cut out").
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