Usually means: Form or develop a structure.
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  1. take shape: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. take shape: Merriam-Webster
  3. take shape: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. take shape: Collins English Dictionary
  5. take shape: Vocabulary.com
  6. take shape: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. take shape: Wiktionary
  8. take shape: Dictionary.com
  9. take shape: Rhymezone
  10. take shape: FreeDictionary.org
  11. take shape: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. take shape: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. take shape: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. take shape: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take shape: Encyclopedia

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  1. take shape: Idioms

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▸ verb:  (intransitive, often figurative) To take a definite form.

Similar:
form, take form, spring, shape up, formalize, crystallize, take, shape, outshape, inform, more...

Opposite:
dissolve, disintegrate, disappear, scatter, fall apart

Phrases:
to take shape, take the shape of, more...

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Similar:
form, take form, spring, shape up, formalize, crystallize, take, shape, outshape, inform, more...

Opposite:
dissolve, disintegrate, disappear, scatter, fall apart

Phrases:
to take shape, take the shape of, more...



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