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shaped

[ sheypt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

of a definite form, shape, or character (often used in combination):
a U-shaped driveway.
designed to fit a particular form, body, or contour:
a shaped garment.
Furniture. having other than a plane surface.

-shaped

/ ʃeɪpt /

Origin of shaped¹

First recorded in 1530–40; shape + -ed ²

The religion shaped all facets of life: art, medicine, literature, and even dynastic politics.

Hitchcock's sensibility was being shaped by the German Expressionist masters.

How has your experience been shaped by digital encounters and the social web?

In addition, several detainees were led to believe they would die in custody, with one told he would leave in a coffin-shaped box.

It was a strangely shaped block, due to the area once being underwater, and he took it home with him to examine closer.

They are succeeded by kidney shaped capsules of a brown color.

There is an odd triangular-shaped hill that rises on one side very boldly and abruptly, called the Fox's Head.

Those varieties of the plant with heart-shaped leaves have paniculated flowers with unequal cups.

It was piteous to see how in these intervals his delusions were always shaped by the bitterest experiences of his life.

In one, which occurs not infrequently, a thickened arm is made to expand into something like a fan-shaped hand, as in Fig. 18.

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