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▪ I. unˈshape, v.
[un-2 3, 4. Cf. MHG. entschepfen.]
trans. To deform; to destroy. Also fig.
a1400New Test. (Paues) App. 219 Vnschapynge þer body wiþ newe manere of degyse. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. iv. iv. 23 This deede vnshapes me quite. 1857De Quincey Whiggism Wks. VI. 77 The sandy columns of the Great Desert, which the caprices of the wind build up and scatter, shape and unshape, within..a minute.
▪ II. unshape
obs. var. unshapen a. |