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RESHAPE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shape anew or differently

Example:

The new foreign minister reshaped the foreign policy of his country

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "reshape" is one way to...):

determine; influence; mold; regulate; shape (shape or influence; give direction to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Shape again or shape differently

Synonyms:

remold; reshape

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "reshape" is one way to...):

forge; form; mold; mould; shape; work (make something, usually for a specific function)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

PBPs participate in the terminal stages of assembling the bacterial cell wall, and in reshaping the cell wall during cell division.

(Benethamine Penicillin, NCI Thesaurus)

Surgeons can reshape the appearance of body parts through cosmetic surgery.

(Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery, NIH)

The cosmic crash was a defining event in the early history of the Milky Way and reshaped the structure of our galaxy, fashioning both the galaxy’s inner bulge and its outer halo.

(The Gaia Sausage: the major collision that changed the Milky Way, University of Cambridge)

The ring-grazing orbits will continue until April 22, when the last close flyby of Saturn's moon Titan will once again reshape Cassini's flight path.

(Over Saturn's Turbulent North, NASA)

Wildfires swept the landscape during arid regimes and reshaped the vegetation available for plant-eating animals.

(Big dinosaurs steered clear of the tropics, NSF)

He was the Wild—the unknown, the terrible, the ever-menacing, the thing that prowled in the darkness around the fires of the primeval world when they, cowering close to the fires, were reshaping their instincts, learning to fear the Wild out of which they had come, and which they had deserted and betrayed.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Some of the most common body parts people want to improve through surgery include: • Breasts: Increase or reduce the size of breasts or reshape sagging breasts • Ears: Reduce the size of large ears or set protruding ears back closer to the head • Eyes: Correct drooping upper eyelids or remove puffy bags below the eyes • Face: Remove facial wrinkles, creases or acne scars • Hair: Fill in balding areas with one's own hair • Nose: Change the shape of the nose • Tummy: Flatten the abdomen

(Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery, NIH)