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
Noun
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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However, the same technologies that can immortalize could also distort and manipulate reality.—
Sahar Hashmi,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2025
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Donovan continued that social media also distorts wealth.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
29 June 2025
Noun
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Justice Samuel Alito warned in his own concurrence against the CASA opinion being undermined by distortions of the class action and standing rules in future cases.—
The Editors,
National Review,
27 June 2025
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Trying to keep the integrity of the original, those distortions remain.—
Tim Greiving,
HollywoodReporter,
25 June 2025
Verb
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Vincent attempts through various means to convince people of this infiltration of aliens who appear as normal humans except for their emotionless personalities and deformed little fingers on their hands.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
11 Mar. 2025
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New traction and stability programming first needed to cope with the tires deforming significantly under hard acceleration and sending sensors haywire.—
Michael Teo Van Runkle,
ArsTechnica,
17 June 2025
Noun
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This doesn’t help since defects cluster and entire batches quietly go rogue while the QA team nods at those green dashboards.—
Raghu Para,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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The woman told Matt about a patient at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, James Jansky, who was dying from a heart defect.—
The Tennessean,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
Noun
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Other effects, such as developmental malformations in a fetus and cancer, have also been linked to this surfactant.1312 2.—
Anna Giorgi,
Verywell Health,
4 Mar. 2025
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After a long, eight-year battle, in which the hospital claimed that Maura had a genetic underlying vascular malformation in the brain, jurors sided with the Gallaghers, concluding that Maura's death was preventable.—
Gillian Telling,
People.com,
9 May 2025
Noun
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Her dwarfism caused a kidney deformity, and she's been in kidney failure for most of her life.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 July 2025
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However, severe, inflexible deformities that need aggressive bony carpentry to correct the spine’s alignment carry complication rates up to 60%, with major deformity surgeries posing a 1% mortality risk within a year.—
Richard Menger MD MPA,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
Noun
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Menstrual irregularities can also indicate stress, hormonal imbalances, gynecological diseases and infections.—
Karina Zaiets,
USA Today,
30 June 2025
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Like Nakashima, who created one-off wooden furnishings that embraced all the irregularities of wood, FormaFantasma also allowed the natural materials to be the most prominent feature of these works.—
Adrian Madlener,
Curbed,
26 June 2025
Noun
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The term is often used interchangeably with congenital heart defect, which refers specifically to a structural abnormality of the heart that is present at birth and needs medical or surgical intervention.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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Pulmonic stenosis is a congenital heart defect where the flow of blood from the heart to the lungs is obstructed, and a grade VI murmur is the most intense type of heart murmur, typically indicating a significant abnormality.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 June 2025
Cite this Entry
“Misshape.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misshape. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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