shapen
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From shape (“external form”) + -en (“to make like”).[1]
Verb
[edit]shapen (third-person singular simple present shapens, present participle shapening, simple past and past participle shapened)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English schapen, ischepen, from Old English ġesċapen, from Proto-Germanic *skapanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *skapaną, equivalent to shape + -en (past participle ending).
Verb
[edit]shapen
- (obsolete) past participle of shape
Adjective
[edit]shapen (comparative more shapen, superlative most shapen)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “shapen, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Verb
[edit]shapen
- alternative form of schapen
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