forshape
verbEtymology
From Middle English forshapen, forschapen (“to transform”), from Old English forsċieppan, forsċeppan (“to transform”), from Proto-West Germanic *fraskappjan, equivalent to for- + shape. Cognate with German verschaffen (“to provide, supply, furnish”), Swedish förskapa (“to cut out”).
- inherited from *fraskappjan✻
- inherited from forsċieppan
- inherited from forshapen
Definitions
To metamorphose
To metamorphose; change the shape of; transform.
- late 14th century, John Gower, Confessio Amantis Unkindelich he was transformed, That he which erst a man was formed, Into a woman was forshape, That was to him an angry jape.
To put out of shape
To put out of shape; distort; make misshapen; disfigure.
The neighborhood
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No curated loop yet for forshape. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA