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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As researchers continue investigating the mystery, the findings could reshape our understanding of the social lives and possible burial traditions of ancient human species.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026
It’s election day morning and, with voters poised to reshape the country’s political landscape, Scarlett Johansson is still trying to figure out when she’ll have time to vote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
AARP’s 2026 data show the 50-plus population share now exceeds the national average in 29 states, a shift that is beginning to reshape state economies and labor markets well beyond any single industry.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
Marles said it was pointless to pretend that AI would not reshape the world.
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026
He could reshape mesarthium and he could fly.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
The selloff amplified mounting investor anxiety that Google’s biggest revenue engine is slowing as AI reshapes how consumers search—and that the costs of the global AI build-out may be outrunning the returns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
New research suggests it also physically reshapes the nerves that control the heart, revealing an unexpected difference between the left and right sides of the body.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 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
He reshapes the world until it appears connected, because that helps us to foresee the effects of every event and teaches us to master nature so that we can use it for our practical achievements.
From The Photoplay A Psychological Study by Hugo Münsterberg
Captivity becomes strangely captivating as the author explores how the camps reshaped their prisoners’ inner worlds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 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
Cornwall Capital couldn’t help but notice that Bear Stearns was not so much shaping the subprime mortgage bond business as being reshaped by it.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
“We’re not afraid of rebuilding and reshaping ourselves, and I think that that’s what the Vision Theatre represents.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
“It’s a reshaping of how we do things. It’s not about a casket, burials, embalmings. It’s now about service itself.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 8, 2026
Now, this daughter of immigrants is responsible for reshaping the very system that brought them here decades ago – and doing so in a way that both her party and the country regard as fair.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 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
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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