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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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
Radiation from young, massive stars may escape their galaxies before those stars explode as supernovae and generate large winds that reshape the surrounding environment.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 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
At one school, art-class sizes have grown as budget cuts reshape schedules and course offerings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
He could reshape mesarthium and he could fly.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Once someone remembers to consider docs alongside their narrative companions, that attention reshapes their connection to the genre.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
A disappearing Rio Grande reshapes life along the river.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Mobile UK, which represents EE, O2, Three and Vodafone, said: "Delivering world-class coverage is an uphill battle in a high-density city where development constantly reshapes the skyline."
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
"This work represents a major step forward in understanding how aging reshapes the human genome in brain cells," said Nathan Zemke, Director of Single-cell Genomics at the Center for Epigenomics at UC San Diego.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
The silent pressure of his ideal lasts much longer and reshapes the world much more than the actualities by which he attempted to suggest it.
From What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
However, refreshed and reshaped, Wouter Vrancken's men are embracing the trip to face a Celtic side still failing to convince a support that are becoming increasingly disgruntled after another chastening European defeat at Benfica.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
The AI borrowing spree has also reshaped the bond market and helped drive yields higher.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026
The sharp pain of the wound may heal, but the scar remains—and we must all find a way that the broken heart can both feel the truth of its brokenness and emerge enlarged and reshaped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
On appearance alone, the fragments seemed connected to the Mississippian culture, which emerged more than 1,000 years ago and reshaped social, economic and political life across much of southeastern North America.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Paper remade from wilted, dirty, hopeless litter that had been rescued, scrubbed clean, and reshaped.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
Productions keep leaving the state and artificial intelligence and vertical video are reshaping what gets made and who makes it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
On energy, there is some significance to the "cheaper power" mission announced, reshaping what had previously been a focus on clean power.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Plus, inside the California bullet-train debacle, how a disappearing Rio Grande is reshaping the Southwest, and why the U.S. wants to deploy floating nuclear reactors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
As Jupiter rapidly increased in mass, its immense gravitational influence began reshaping the distribution of material throughout the disk.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
The great change in attitude of which Voltaire was a supreme philosophical weathervane coincided with a rapid reshaping of music after the deaths of Bach and Handel.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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