misshape
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
noun
Etymology
Origin of misshape
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at mis- 1, shape
Example Sentences
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Sure, I am OK to sweat under bright lights and have a heavy-mic pack permanently misshape the waistband of a skirt, but, reader, only if it’s worth it.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2019
A dream sequence late in the script is almost certainly a structural bungle, and passages in which characters state their claims too blatantly misshape individual scenes.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2014
“No no no!” she teased her son, watching him misshape a dumpling.
From Washington Post
He pays particular attention to the intricacies of political institutions and how they shape and misshape policies.
From Time Magazine Archive
V. distort, contort, twist, warp, wrest, writhe, make faces, deform, misshape.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
But if you’re game for an emerging filmmaking talent’s stingingly uncanny foretelling, “The Pink Cloud” is an arresting examination of what it can look like when existence is misshaped into a compromised destiny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2022
For the Briscoe clan, Olympus — with the familiar curves and sounds of the Brazos River, as well as smoke-stink bars and pervasive gossip — has shaped and misshaped them.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2021
Verdon, like Fosse, grew up dancing: As a child she had rickets, which misshaped her legs.
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2019
Three genes—PADI3, TGM3, and TCHH—direct the process that causes the misshaped strands, researchers report this month in the American Journal of Human Genetics.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 22, 2016
Then a Temple of Bacchus, the Elysian fields, British remains; misshaped elms and ragged firs are frequent in a scene of solitude and gloom, which the trunks of dead trees assist.
From Garden-Craft Old and New by Sedding, John D.
The balls of both feet and the ends of both pointer toes had been mashed into misshapen blisters.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
“Predator: Badlands” has a misshapen gait to it, like a comedy skit drawn out to feature length.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025
Some bakers struggled with presentation, giving judges misshapen, funky-looking bakes.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2025
While the blobfish is known for its misshapen silhouette, in its natural deep-sea habitat it actually resembles a regular fish, with its shape kept together by the high water pressure.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2025
Nothing was said of crutches or of misshapen legs, or of ill fortune or of good.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
Her Hand was to her bosom; she breathed hard, and presently, while he stared, words misshaping themselves upon his abashed lips she smiled!
From Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories by Gibbon, Perceval
Strangers interlope for a moment, and change destinies, coming out for a day, from nothing, and going to nowhere, but marring and misshaping everything.
From Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio by Riddle, A. G.
But while he was living thus quietly in Dapitan, events that were to determine his fate were misshaping themselves in Manila.
From The Social Cancer by Derbyshire, Charles E.
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