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shape; mold; the way in which something appears or exists; kind, type, or variety; customary method of doing something; document with blank spaces to be filled in; to shape; to make or produce; to develop; to take form or a particular form

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Usage examples (34)
  • A hundred half-formed thoughts crowded Daoud's mind.
  • The note, written in a half-formed, feminine hand, ran thus:
  • His half-formed spell spun wildly in the air and then was sucked away.
  • Therefore it was not difficult to turn him from his half-formed purpose.
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