sculpt

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sculpt

  • /skʌlpt/

Where it comes from

From French sculpter, from Latin sculpō (“to cut out, carve in stone”).

verb sculpts · sculpting · sculpted

  1. transitive To form by sculpture. They sculpted a statue out of clay.
  2. intransitive To work as a sculptor. What do you do? -I used to box, but now I sculpt.
  3. transitive To carve out gradually. Landforms sculpted by the wind.

noun sculpts

  1. A modification that can be applied to an object, like a texture, but changes the object's shape rather than its appearance.

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verb be a sculptor

Españolesculpir
Portuguêsesculpir
Françaissculpter
Deutschbildhauerisch gestalten, bildhauerisch tätig sein, formen, meißeln
Русскийваять vajatʹ, лепить lepitʹ

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@misc{sculpt_2026,
  title = {sculpt},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sculpt},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}