unshapen

comparative more unshapen · superlative most unshapen

1. Shapeless; misshapen; deformed; ugly.

1. participlepastpast participle of unshape

present singular third person unshapens · participle present unshapening · participle past unshapened · past unshapened

1. rareSynonym of unshape.

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   In determining this matter by instantaneous photography, the artist took the photograph of an omnibus wheel en route, and in this photograph, while the lower ends of the spokes immediately adjacent to the ground are not perceptibly unshapened by the motion, the tops of the upper spokes show an angular motion, corresponding to about ten degrees.

   1887 December 17, “Use of Instantaneous Photography”, in The Indianapolis News, volume XIX, number 10 (whole 5,613), Indianapolis, Ind., page [4], column 6

   In the gap of twenty years between girl and woman, what devastating life forces might have been at work, wiping bloom from cheek, dulling gleam from eves, distorting lips, smiting haggard lines on face, hardening or unshapening sweet and beloved contours, hardening, too, the mind, drying up the heart, arresting the development of the soul?

   1919 September, William J[ohn] Locke, “The House of Baltazar”, in Good Housekeeping, page 64, column 1

   His knife dripped with the white, just red-flecked life-blood of the stark-eyed beauty—the mullet must have turned four pounds—he’d slit open with a quick slice of his accustomed fingers—coarse, work-rough fingers, horned as well as torn by sixty years of endless labor, blunted, unshapened by coarse, relentless toil of coarse, relentless existence never shirked, never deplored; skillful, certain fingers—for in such butchery as this of his the hand of constant usage hath, as it happens, the surer sense.

   1925, Louise Jordan Miln, “Weeping Willow”, in The Soul of China: Glimpsed in Tales of Today and Yesterday, New York, N.Y.: Frederick A. Stokes Company, page 100

   Synonyms: unshape