forshape

词形变化

forshapes 三单 forshaping 现在分词 forshaped 过去式 forshaped 过去分词 forshapen 过去式 forshapen 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To metamorphose; change the shape of; transform.

    废旧 及物

    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.

  2. 2.

    To put out of shape; distort; make misshapen; disfigure.

    废旧 及物

词源

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”).

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