shaped
adjective
of a definite form, shape, or character (often used in combination).
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shaped
American
[sheypt]
/ 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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The answer for some is shaped by whether they see themselves as Taiwanese only or Chinese as well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Hunnam believes that in Gein’s case it was a combination of nature and nurture that shaped him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
That sense of autonomy shaped how she expresses herself online today, and she believes that a revived MySpace should avoid the algorithmic, pay-to-play dynamics that dominate modern platforms.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
A person's dementia risk is shaped partly by factors that cannot be altered, including age, gender and genetics.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
Fa’s knife was beautiful and deadly, with a blade of banded blue slate shaped like a willow leaf, and a haft of red deer antler that was bound with elk sinew for a better grip.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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
These were patterns made up of squares or -shaped lines interlaced and made to seem intricate, though originally simple.
From Architecture Classic and Early Christian by Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger)
Zygon, zī′gon, n. a connecting bar: an -shaped fissure of the brain.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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