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单词 take shape
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When something takes shape, it develops or starts to appear in such a way that it becomes fairly clear what its final form will be.
By Friday night, when we held our regular board meeting, a plan was taking shape.
Synonyms: become clear, come together, fall into place, crystallize More Synonyms of take shape
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take shape in British English

to assume a definite form
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take shape in American English

to begin to have definite form, condition, etc.
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Examples of 'take shape' in a sentence
take shape

It takes shape in different ways.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It can be like staring at one of those 3-D pictures for a long time until the image begins to take shape and then appears.
Christianity Today (2000)
This was the context in which Third Way took shape.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
A Hallé Ring appears to be taking shape.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
(idiom) 
Definition
to assume a definite form
The plan started to take shape in his mind.
Synonyms
become clear
come together
fall into place
crystallize
Now my thoughts really began to crystallize.
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Additional synonyms

in the sense of crystallize
Definition
to make or become definite
Now my thoughts really began to crystallize.
Synonyms
take shape,
form,
become clear,
come together,
materialize

Nearby words of
take shape

  • take possession of
  • take precedence over
  • take root
  • take shape
  • take sides with someone
  • take someone back
  • take someone for something

Synonyms of 'take shape'

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