assume the shape of

verb

Roget 144: be converted into; become, get, wax; come to, turn to, turn into, evolve into, develop into; turn out, lapse, shift; run into, fall into, pass into, slide into, glide into, grow into, ripen into, open into, resolve itself into, settle into, merge into, emerge as; melt, grow, come round to, mature, mellow; assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume the state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of; illapse^†; begin a new phase, assume a new phase, undergo a change.    convert into, resolve into; make, render; mold, form etc. 240; remodel, new model, refound^†, reform, reorganize; assimilate to, bring to, reduce to.    ... show more

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