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reˈshape, v.|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
To shape anew.
1827Carlyle Misc., Richter (1869) 11 The character is as it were forcibly crushed into some foreign mould, in the hope of being thereby reshaped and beautified. 1875Whitney Life Lang. iv. 48 It has been reshaped to suit better the convenience of those who used it. 1895Thinker VIII. 252 The Church..reshapes its architecture to accommodate these agencies. 1916Joyce Portrait of Artist (1969) 67 The change of fortune which was reshaping the world about him into a vision of squalor and insincerity. 1951E. E. Evans-Pritchard Social Anthropol. v. 86 The theories have been shaped and reshaped by this steady growth of knowledge. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 29 Mar. 17/1 British economic policy has had to be reshaped to deal with an adverse trend in the balance of payments.
refl.1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. ii. i, The wreck and dissolution must reshape itself into a social Arrangement as it can and may. 1897Baring-Gould Bladys Pref. 7, I allowed [the idea] to re-shape itself, in fresh scenes, with fresh developments, and fresh incidents.
Hence reˈshaping vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1882Athenæum 7 Jan. 27/3 A reshaping of a comedietta of Haynes Bayly. 1897Watts-Dunton Aylwin xiii. iii, Not even the reshaping power of memory would suffice to appease my longing. 1951R. Firth Elem. Social Organiz. iii. 89 This has been particularly marked with the coming of industrialism, foreshadowing the destruction or radical re-shaping of their social structure. 1964F. L. Westwater Electronic Computers iv. 89 The pulse train is fed back into the tube after amplification and re-shaping. 1969Gloss. Landscape Work (B.S.I.) v. 30 Reshaping, a pruning operation directed to improving the shape of a tree. |