reshapern.
/ˌriːˈʃeɪpə/, U.S. /riˈʃeɪpər/ A person who or thing which reshapes something.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > making or fashioning anew > [noun] > one who or that which refashions
refashioner1800
remodeller1819
recaster1841
reshaper1923
1923 Washington Post 10 May 1/5 An electrically operated nose cutter and reshaper..was exhibited today at the annual convention of the American Bronchoscopic society.
1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Reshaper, one that reshapes something; esp. a worker who does the final blocking of hats.
1964 F. L. Westwater Electronic Computers iii. 49 The effect of passing through a gate causes a deterioration in the pulse shape. This can be corrected by some non-logical element such as an amplifier or reshaper.
1998 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 102 209/2 Great cities have an ability to digest reshapers, and to blunt and dissolve their messages.
2002 J. H. Timmerman R. Frost v. 111 But surely the most prominent of these ethical reshapers was Martin Heidegger.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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