reshape
Americanverb (used with object)
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reshapes,
present (3rd person singular)
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reshaped,
past participle, past
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reshaping
present participle
verb
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Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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reshapesimple
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reshapessimple
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have reshapedperfect
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has reshapedperfect
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am reshapingprogressive
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are reshapingprogressive
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is reshapingprogressive
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have been reshapingperfect progressive
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has been reshapingperfect progressive
Past
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reshapedsimple
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had reshapedperfect
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was reshapingprogressive
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were reshapingprogressive
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had been reshapingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of reshape
Explanation
When you reshape something, you change or transform it completely. You can reshape a lump of clay, but you can also reshape your plans for your life. A government can reshape the country's energy plan, incorporating more environmentally friendly systems. And a school committee can reshape the high school curriculum, adding higher-level science classes and more choices in the art department. It's also possible to reshape things in a more literal way, squeezing bread dough as you reshape it to fit a different pan, for example.
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Party leaders vowed the morning after to respond to voters’ mandate on affordability and to check executive power, as members of both parties predicted the results would reshape politics for years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
As President Reagan and his lawyers began their campaign to reshape American jurisprudence, an important early clash involved the tax-exempt status of Bob Jones University.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the findings could reshape scientists' understanding of how human eyes develop.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
“Space tourism could reshape how we define destinations, experiences and even international tourism competition. It is not yet a mass tourism market. The broader economic transformation will take time,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
National and state laws and a trend toward teaching and testing “core subjects” reshape social perceptions and create a permanent culture that continually marginalizes the arts in the curriculum.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
“Human skills remain even more important as AI takes on more complex work and reshapes fields in ways we can’t fully predict,” says Leah Belsky, OpenAI’s vice president of education.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
But Lord, now the studio's creative director, still comes into the office and playfully reshapes Morph while chatting.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Thill wrote that he and his team “expect others to follow as Anil reshapes the organization.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
"This new understanding reshapes how we think about the structure of matter and deepens our knowledge of the most fundamental element that is responsible for the universe in its current form."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
To-day it fails to meet a situation which reshapes itself with each rising and each setting of the sun.
From The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) by Scott Nearing
Cook’s experience is notable because the culprit was a family member and wingman to the comedian while he reshaped his industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Sixty years on, the tragedy remains woven into the nation's collective memory, a day of unimaginable loss that reshaped a community and changed attitudes to industrial safety across Britain.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
As these continental fragments came together, immense pressure and heat reshaped large sections of Earth's crust.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
The AI borrowing spree has also reshaped the bond market and helped drive yields higher.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026
His scowl reshaped itself into a small, patronizing smile.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
By carefully reshaping and reducing the size of the laser beam, Ndao and his colleagues found a way around both obstacles.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
Then they went straight to work changing his arsenal, bringing their newest reclamation project to the laboratory that has been reshaping the trajectory of pitchers’ careers for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
The incident pushed Cohen to join a growing protest movement of secular residents, who say the expanding ultra-Orthodox population is reshaping the character of their hometown.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
These storms, combined with high tides and the Kelvin wave, which can add 6 to 12 inches to background sea levels, have resulted in significant damage and a reshaping of the coast over the summer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
For Darwin, Lyell’s central idea—of the slow heave of natural forces shaping and reshaping the earth, sculpting nature—would prove to be a potent intellectual spur.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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