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misshaped

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -e?pt

Verb

misshaped

  1. simple past tense and past participle of misshape

Anagrams

  • dameships

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misshape

English

Etymology

From mis- +? shape.

Pronunciation

  • (noun) IPA(key): /?m?s?e?p/
  • (verb) IPA(key): /m?s??e?p/

Noun

misshape (plural misshapes)

  1. (obsolete) A misshapen person; a misshapen body. [14th-17th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.12:
      The one of them, that elder did appeare,
      With her dull eyes did seeme to looke askew,
      That her mis-shape much helpt [...].
  2. A misshapen object; now especially, a broken item (especially food) sold individually at a cheaper price. [from 19th c.]
    • 1995, Jarvis Cocker et al., "Mis-Shapes":
      Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits
      Raised on a diet of broken biscuits.

Verb

misshape (third-person singular simple present misshapes, present participle misshaping, simple past misshaped, past participle misshaped or (obsolete or poetic) misshapen)

  1. To shape badly or incorrectly. [from 15th c.]
    • 1989, John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: Ballantine Books, 1990, Chapter 9, p. 601,[1]
      Major Rawls drove us to our motel [] where a swimming pool with underwater lights had the disturbing effect of substantially enlarging and misshaping the swimmers.

Derived terms

  • misshaper

Related terms

  • misshapen

Anagrams

  • emphasis

misshape From the web:

  • misshapen meaning
  • misshapen means
  • misshapen what does it means
  • what causes misshapen pupils
  • what causes misshapen cucumbers
  • what causes misshapen sperm
  • what causes misshapen strawberries
  • what causes misshapen fingernails
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