单词	misshapen
释义	misshapenmis‧shap‧en /ˌmɪsˈʃeɪpən, mɪˈʃeɪ-/ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINmisshapen Origin: 1300-1400 mis- + shapen, old past participle of shape Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Misshapen carrots and potatoes were fed to the pigs. Ballerinas often have blunted, misshapen toes. The old woman's fingers were misshapen and useless. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Avoid varieties whose foliage is misshapen. It looked misshapen in this light, almost as if something was eating away at it. It wasn't just that the thing looked misshapen and ugly and threatening. Later, she would pick up the misshapen bullet from the floor. The bat flapped around his misshapen hat and took off into the dark. The model was a little misshapen, the face furred with fluff from her pocket, but it was still intact. They were used to store trunks, suitcases, large misshapen cardboard boxes and broken furniture. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorhaving a strange or wrong shape► deformed something that is deformed , especially part of a living thing, has the wrong shape, usually because it has grown or developed wrongly: · She had survived polio, but her right leg was weak and deformed.· The desert plants were strange deformed bushes with bizarrely twisted branches. ► distorted something that is distorted has been twisted out of its correct or original shape: · As a result of the crash, the remains of the vehicles were distorted out of all recognition.· After treatment, her distorted hip had straightened, so that her legs were the same length. ► misshapen having the wrong shape, usually because of growing that way over a long period of time: · The old woman's fingers were misshapen and useless.· Misshapen carrots and potatoes were fed to the pigs. ► lopsided something that is lopsided does not have the same shape on each side, for example because one side is higher than the other: · She gave me a lopsided smile.· a note written in a child's lopsided handwriting· His whole face was lopsided, one cheek badly scarred. ► lose its shape especially British if something such as a hat, coat, or skirt loses its shape , it becomes the wrong shape because it has been worn a lot: · His battered old hat had completely lost its shape.· She was wearing an old jumper that had lost its shape. Word family WORD FAMILYadjectiveshapelessshapelymisshapennounshapeverbshapeadverbshapelessly not the normal or natural shape:  an old woman struggling to walk on misshapen feet misshapen carrots
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