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sculpted

/ˈskʌlptɪd/
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If something is sculpted, it's carved or modeled into a deliberate shape. An artist might make a sculpted statue of a Greek god.

You can use the adjective sculpted to describe anything that's been shaped into a specific form, whether it's a sculptor's block of clay or a wood carver's tree trunk, sculpted into the shape of a lighthouse. People use the word to describe human bodies, too — your brother might go to the gym every day with the hope of getting sculpted abdominal muscles, for example. The Latin root sculpt means "to carve."

Definitions of sculpted
  1. adjective
    cut into a desired shape
    synonyms: graven, sculptured
    carved, carven
    made for or formed by carving (`carven' is archaic or literary)
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