simple past tense and past participle of shape
"The chef carefully shaped the dough into small balls before placing them on the baking sheet."
In plain English: Shaped means to make something have a specific form or outline.
"The wind shaped the sand dunes over many years."
Having been given a shape, especially a curved shape.
"The smooth stone in my pocket has been worn into an oval by years of rubbing against each other."
In plain English: Shaped means having a specific form or outline rather than being round and smooth.
"The dough was shaped into small balls before being baked."
Usage: Use shaped as an adjective to describe objects that have acquired a specific form through molding or cutting rather than being naturally formed in that way. It often appears before nouns like shaped dough or shaped glass to emphasize the result of manual shaping processes.
Shaped comes from Middle English schaped, which was formed by adding the suffix -ed to the word shape. This construction simply indicates that something has been given a specific form or appearance.