Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive of shape; throw out of form or into disorder; confound; derange.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To deprive of shape, or of proper shape; to disorder; to confound; to derange.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
deprive ofshape ; throw out ofform or intodisorder . - verb transitive To
confound ;derange .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The distinctive character of Matter is unshape, the lack of qualification and of form; surely then it is absurd to pretend that it has Quality in not being qualified; that is like saying that sizelessness constitutes a certain size.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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Four of these stories are told with the utmost economy of means and a grim pleasure in watching events unshape themselves.
The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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My sword hath brought them to such a condition that they have not themselves any longer the power of choosing freely, and that they be constrained to shape and unshape their wishes according to my good pleasure.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 1830
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