v. [UN-2 3, 4. Cf. MHG. entschepfen.] trans. To deform; to destroy. Also fig.

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a. 1400.  New Test. (Paues), App. 219. Vnschapynge þer body wiþ newe manere of degyse.

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1603.  Shaks., Meas. for M., IV. iv. 23. This deede vnshapes me quite.

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1857.  De Quincey, Whiggism, Wks. VI. 77. The sandy columns of the Great Desert, which the caprices of the wind build up and scatter, shape and unshape, within … a minute.

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