as in to distort
to twist (something) out of a natural or normal shape or condition
a disease that she contracted during childhood caused her spine to become misshaped
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Recent Examples of misshape
Talia Ergas, Travel + Leisure, 27 June 2023
The misshapen hemoglobin misshape the cells.
—Jason Mast, STAT, 19 Dec. 2022
Do not store your menstrual cup in an air-tight container: A lack of air can actually damage and misshape the cup.
—Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping, 6 July 2022
Verb
That’s a surefire way to bend the brim and otherwise misshape it.
—Talia Ergas, Travel + Leisure, 27 June 2023
The misshapen hemoglobin misshape the cells.
—Jason Mast, STAT, 19 Dec. 2022
Do not store your menstrual cup in an air-tight container: A lack of air can actually damage and misshape the cup.
—Emma Seymour, Good Housekeeping, 6 July 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misshape
Verb
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The movie, named after a popular 1950s song, evoked and distorted the midcentury suburban fantasy.—
Daniel Arkin,
NBC News,
16 Jan. 2025
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Trump, who pulled out of his own planned interview with CBS, had alleged CBS had distorted the interview to aid Harris.—
David Folkenflik,
NPR,
16 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Teaching how and why the Holocaust happened can make the Holocaust relevant and provoke critical thinking, something sorely needed in a world awash in online denial, distortion, and antisemitism.—
Greg Schneider and Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
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Those estimates may also be valuable in multi-party trade negotiations focused on Chinese distortions, which pose particularly serious challenges for U.S. trade and the world economy.—
Alden Abbott,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Solids can also be deformed if enough pressure is applied to them.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
23 Jan. 2025
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The biggest challenge with creating the hulls is managing the heat during the additive process to keep the parts from deforming as they are created.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
31 Dec. 2024
Noun
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In early 2020, Fitbit made an update to address the defect, but continued to hear from people suffering burns and did not report the issue to regulators as legally required.—
Kate Gibson,
CBS News,
23 Jan. 2025
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Try to only buy the pieces with no visible defects.—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
16 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Richard Lapointe, who died at age 74 in 2020, had Dandy-Walker syndrome, a rare congenital brain malformation that his lawyers say was a factor in his false confession.—
Landon Mion,
Fox News,
26 Jan. 2025
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His arteriovenous malformation, that tangle of blood vessels in his brain, had begun to bleed.—
Jon Hamilton,
NPR,
14 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The film starred John Hurt as Joseph (John) Merrick, an English man with severe physical deformities who was largely shunned by society, and Anthony Hopkins as Frederick Treves, a doctor who befriended Merrick.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
16 Jan. 2025
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One fan was producer Stuart Cornfeld, who worked with Mel Brooks, and eventually tapped Lynch to direct The Elephant Man, a drama based on the life of Joseph Herrick, an English artist with severe physical deformities.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
16 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The audits of all four high school foundations, which provided the district with $5 million in funding to support students in the last school year, were spurred by a report circulated by Canyon Crest Academy students alleging financial irregularities within the CCA Foundation.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Jan. 2025
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Short-seller Hindenburg Research accused the company of accounting irregularities in a detailed report last year.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Chief Executive Steven Powell reiterated in an interview with The Times the company’s assertion that its data showed no abnormalities in the 12 hours leading up to the ignition of the Eaton fire.—
Noah Goldberg,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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There were no abnormalities reported at the Ikata Nuclear Power Plant in western Japan or the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant in Kagoshima prefecture, NHK said, referring to the two plants nearest to where the quake occurred.—
Rhea Rose Abraham,
USA TODAY,
14 Jan. 2025
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“Misshape.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misshape. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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