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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Mr. Boger would later join Merck, then leave to co-found Vertex, carrying the drug-discovery tradition Tishler had shaped into a new generation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Iconic painter shaped one of the most distinctive styles in modern popular culture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The three brothers zigzagged across Zambia, navigating a landscape increasingly shaped by people and avoiding obstacles including major cities.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Instead, they suggest that brain aging may be shaped by a complex combination of experiences throughout life, including education, social circumstances, health, and environmental exposures.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Later, he became enamored of Japanese interlocking puzzles and dimensional wooden puzzles shaped in the form of an automobile or an animal.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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
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
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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