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shaped

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ʃeɪpt//

Having been given a shape, especially a curved shape.

adjective

  1. 1

    Having been given a shape, especially a curved shape.

    The shaped sides of the wardrobe give it a more attractive appearance.

  2. 2

    Having a particular shape (sharing the appearance of something in space, especially its outline – often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure).

  3. 3

    Designed for a particular person or thing.

    a God-shaped hole in one's heart

    Records showed the three security agents were already dead, which bore further investigation, but that was an Ibanez-shaped problem, and Lillian's problems were taller, leaner, and perhaps even meaner, so she focused on them instead.

  4. 4

    Having a particularly pleasant or recognizable shape.

Etymology

From Middle English schaped, ischaped, equivalent to shape + -ed.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of shapesimple past and past participle of shape

Forms

comparative
more shaped
superlative
most shaped
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).