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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Nick Robinson has a conversation with, not an interrogation of, the people who shape our political thinking about what shaped theirs.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
It arrives as audiences and filmmakers signal an openness to revisiting stories about women long shaped by men accustomed to processing female identity through a saint-sinner binary.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
Iconic painter shaped one of the most distinctive styles in modern popular culture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Asked in July 2025 whether his call for cuts at the time was shaped by the president who might select him, he cited episodes in which he had been early and the Fed late.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
It’s shaped like a crescent moon, facing the ocean.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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
These were patterns made up of squares or -shaped lines interlaced and made to seem intricate, though originally simple.
From Architecture Classic and Early Christian by T. Roger (Thomas Roger) Smith
Tongue ovoid, barely notched behind and slightly free posteriorly; vomerine teeth 2-3, situated on -shaped elevations between round inner nares; openings to vocal sac large, one situated along inner posterior edge of each mandibular ramus.
From A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla by William E. Duellman
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