sculpt
verbnounattested in dialogue
- //skʌlpt//
To form by sculpture.
verb
- 1
To form by sculpture.
They sculpted a statue out of clay.
- 2
To work as a sculptor.
What do you do? -I used to box, but now I sculpt.
- 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
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