🇬🇧 Shape meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

To shape something means to change how it looks on the outside so it has the form you want. You might bend, press, roll, squish, or carve it so it becomes a circle, a square, a star, or any other form you choose.

I wanted to shape the snow into a perfect cube, but my gloves shaped it into a snow-lump with opinions.

Grandpa said he would shape the hedge into a dinosaur, but now it just looks like a fluffy broccoli.

I wanted to shape the pancake like a star, but it rebelled and shaped itself into a weird potato-blob again.

My little brother tried to shape his hair into a shark fin and scared himself in the mirror.

I used my fingers to shape the slime into a ball, but it decided to shape itself into a floor stain instead.

At dawn, a child sits by a table and shapes wet clay into a small bowl. She shapes the rim with careful fingers, shapes the curve until it holds light like a smile. Later she shapes a handle and signs the base with a thumbprint. Her broken heart feels whole: she shapes hope into something real.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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