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Scaped vs Shaped - What's the difference?

scaped | shaped |

As verbs the difference between scaped and shaped

is that scaped is (scape) while shaped is (shape).

As an adjective shaped is

having been given a shape, especially a curved shape.

scaped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (scape)
  • Anagrams

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    scape

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany) a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root
  • the lowest part of an insect's antenna
  • (architecture) the shaft of a column
  • (architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.
  • Etymology 2

    Formed by aphesis from escape . (etystub)

    Verb

    (scap)
  • (archaic) to escape
  • *17th century , John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal :
  • *:No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
  • *:As I have seen in one autumnal face.
  • *:Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape,
  • *:This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape .
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) escape
  • * Shakespeare
  • I spake of most disastrous chances, Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.
  • (obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.
  • (Donne)
  • (obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
  • * Milton
  • Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.
  • (obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.
  • (Shakespeare)
    (Webster 1913)

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    shaped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (shape)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having been given a shape, especially a curved shape.
  • The shaped sides of the wardrobe give it a more attractive appearance.

    See also

    * -shaped

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