shaped
adjective
of a definite form, shape, or character (often used in combination).
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shaped
American
[shaypt]
/ ʃeɪpt /
adjective
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of a definite form, shape, or character (often used in combination).
a U-shaped driveway.
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designed to fit a particular form, body, or contour.
a shaped garment.
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Furniture. having other than a plane surface.
-shaped
British
/ ʃeɪpt /
combining form
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Communities are shaped by the ways we participate in them.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
While Gethings grew up in Frenchwood in Preston, he was shaped by the ongoing Cold War Space Race and the quest to put a man on the moon.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Americans born in later generations were shaped by different experiences, in particular wars in Vietnam and the Middle East.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The findings will also provide new insights into the volcanic processes that shaped the lunar landscape.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
The gaslight shone upon the heavy, leonine lines of his features—a mane of sandy-brown hair, eyes the piercing blue of gas flames, a firm mouth shaped around the stem of a briar pipe.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Also appealing and true to its common name, but for brighter light: string of pearls, Senecio rowleyanus, a South African species with succulent pea-sized and -shaped leaves that cascade over a pot edge.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 2021
Into that -shaped void has been thrust the third series of the French law and order procedural, Spiral.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2011
Since some people are convinced that dowsing, A B a method of finding underground water with a Y -shaped stick, is effective, but others condemn the procedure ~ mere superstition.
From SAT Tests
Most specimens have the vomerine teeth situated on -shaped elevations, but in some individuals the elevations are more nearly transversely situated between the inner nares.
From A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla by William E. Duellman
Above the bodice was nearly always seen the -shaped opening of the under petticoat bodice, and across and above that, the white embroidered or crimped chemise.
From English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop
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