reshape — English Dictionary

Verb

1. To make into a different shape.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   Intentional skull reshaping is found in burials across Asia, Europe and Mesoamerica.

2. To reorganize.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   It’s been nearly one week since the NFL’s legal tampering period began, and GM Joe Douglas has reshaped the New York Jets’ starting offensive line.

   More examples (3)

   2024, Paul Salopek, New Map: Ancient Roads of China, National Geographic It’s not hard to find antique roads in China. The place has been shaped and reshaped by engineers for thousands of years. As any Chinese schoolchild will tell you, grand civilizations dating to the Bronze Age blazed intricate communications networks that expanded trade and maintained military control.

   President Donald Trump on Monday announced he had signed four executive orders that will reshape the military, including banning transgender service members from serving in the US armed forces; gutting the military’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs; and reinstating with back pay service members who were discharged for refusing to get vaccinated from Covid-19.

   Courts and Congress are struggling to keep up with the breakneck pace as the Trump administration dramatically reshapes the American government, national politics and international order.

Verb

1. shape anew or differently

   Broader terms

   determineshapemoldinfluenceregulatemould

   Examples

   The new foreign minister reshaped the foreign policy of his country

2. shape again or shape differently

   Synonyms

   remold

   Broader terms

   shapeformworkmoldmouldforge