RESHAPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reshape mean? 

• RESHAPE (verb)
  The verb RESHAPE has 2 senses:

1. shape anew or differently

2. shape again or shape differently

  Familiarity information: RESHAPE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESHAPE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reshape    ... he / she / it reshapes   
Past simple: reshaped   
Past participle: reshaped   
-ing form: reshaping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shape anew or differently

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

The new foreign minister reshaped the foreign policy of his country

Hypernyms (to "reshape" is one way to...):

determine; influence; mold; regulate; shape (shape or influence; give direction to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Shape again or shape differently

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

remold; reshape

Hypernyms (to "reshape" is one way to...):

forge; form; mold; mould; shape; work (make something, usually for a specific function)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Ceftobiprole binds to and inactivates penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs), enzymes involved in the terminal stages of bacterial cell wall assembly and cell wall reshaping during bacterial growth and division.

(Ceftobiprole Medocaril, NCI Thesaurus)

CERN's Large Hadron Collider announced that researchers discovered a remarkable class of particles known as pentaquarks that could reshape scientists' understanding about the properties of matter.

(Physicists discover long-sought 'pentaquark' particle, NSF)

But the vision of that first fight still lingered under his eyelids, and as he watched he saw it dissolve and reshape into the series of fights which had followed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

PBPs, including transpeptidases, carboxypeptidases, and endopeptidases, participate in the terminal stages of assembling the bacterial cell wall and in reshaping the cell wall during growth and division.

(Hetacillin, NCI Thesaurus)

PBPs are enzymes that are involved in the last stages of assembling the bacterial cell wall and in reshaping the cell wall during growth and division.

(Imipenem, NCI Thesaurus)

Reshaping a tooth surface to modify the dental occlusion.

(Occlusal Adjustment, NCI Thesaurus)

A complete denture with additional support from remaining teeth that have been reshaped or altered prosthetically to permit the denture to fit over them.

(Overdenture, NCI Thesaurus)

Laser eye surgery reshapes the cornea, the clear front part of the eye.

(Laser Eye Surgery, NIH)

PBPs are enzymes involved in the terminal stages of assembling the bacterial cell wall and in reshaping the cell wall during growth and division.

(Cefaclor, NCI Thesaurus)

The astrocytes' job is to prune unnecessary synapses (connections) in the brain to refresh and reshape its wiring.

(Lack of Sleep Makes Brain to Literally Eat Itself, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)