US /mɪsˈʃeɪp/ UK /mɪsˈʃeɪp/
verb noun

Meanings

  1. 1
    verb

    to give a wrong or deformed shape to something

    The intense heat began to misshape the plastic components.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 verb · to give a wrong or deformed... deformdistortcontortdisfigurewarpmangle
Opposites
Word family
Forms misshaping
Derived forms misshapen
Related forms shapemisshapen

Etymology

From mis- ('wrongly, badly') + shape, from Old English scieppan ('to create, form'), of Germanic origin.

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