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sculpt

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • //skʌlpt//

To form by sculpture.

verb

  1. 1

    To form by sculpture.

    They sculpted a statue out of clay.

  2. 2

    To work as a sculptor.

    What do you do? -I used to box, but now I sculpt.

  3. 3

    To carve out gradually.

    Landforms sculpted by the wind.

Etymology

From French sculpter, from Latin sculpō (“to cut out, carve in stone”).

noun

  1. 1

    A modification that can be applied to an object, like a texture, but changes the object's shape rather than its appearance.

Forms

plural
sculpts
past tense
sculpted
past participle
sculpted
present participle
sculpting
third person singular
sculpts
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