Definition of "misshape"

misshape

/ˈmɪsʃeɪp/

noun
plural misshapes
1. (obsolete) A misshapen person; a misshapen body.
  Quotations
  The one of them, that elder did appeare, With her dull eyes did seeme to looke askew, That her mis-shape much helpt [...].
  1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
2. A misshapen object; now especially, a broken item (especially food) sold individually at a cheaper price.
  Quotations
  Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits Raised on a diet of broken biscuits.
  1995, Jarvis Cocker et al., Mis-Shapes
verb
third-person singular simple present misshapes, present participle misshaping, simple past misshaped, past participle misshaped or (obsolete or poetic) misshapen
1. To shape badly or incorrectly.
  Quotations
  Major Rawls drove us to our motel […] where a swimming pool with underwater lights had the disturbing effect of substantially enlarging and misshaping the swimmers.
  1989, John Irving, chapter 9, in A Prayer for Owen Meany‎, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1990, page 601