"shape-shift" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shape-shifts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shape-shifting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shape-shifted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shape-shifted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "shape-shift (third-person singular simple present shape-shifts, present participle shape-shifting, simple past and past participle shape-shifted)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "shapeshift"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of the Year 2023: Taylor Swift”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-06:",
          "text": "It was around that time, Swift remembers now, that she began trying to shape-shift. \"I realized every record label was actively working to try to replace me,\" she says. \"I thought instead, I'd replace myself first with a new me. It's harder to hit a moving target.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of shapeshift."
      ],
      "id": "en-shape-shift-en-verb-hWSnE137",
      "links": [
        [
          "shapeshift",
          "shapeshift#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shape-shift"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shape-shifts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shape-shifting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shape-shifted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shape-shifted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "expansion": "shape-shift (third-person singular simple present shape-shifts, present participle shape-shifting, simple past and past participle shape-shifted)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "shapeshift"
        }
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        "English multiword terms",
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          "ref": "2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of the Year 2023: Taylor Swift”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-06:",
          "text": "It was around that time, Swift remembers now, that she began trying to shape-shift. \"I realized every record label was actively working to try to replace me,\" she says. \"I thought instead, I'd replace myself first with a new me. It's harder to hit a moving target.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of shapeshift."
      ],
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        [
          "shapeshift",
          "shapeshift#English"
        ]
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  "word": "shape-shift"
}