Hack and Shape

Hack

Hack verb - To deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently.

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Shape and hack are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shape" instead a verb "Hack".

Nearby Words: hacked, hacking, hacker, hackery

Shape verb - To change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation.

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Hack and shape are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hack" instead a verb "Shape".

Nearby Words: shaped, shapeless, shapely, shaping

good	good hack	good shape
best	best hack	best shape
similar	similar hack	similar shape
original	original hack	original shape
Other adjectives: simple, large, big, great, bad, traditional.

Played straight in the BE Archive story Keeps The Autodoc Away, where a couple hack the eponymous AutoDoc to "cure" them of being out of shape.

Source: Required Secondary Powers / Literature
Bowdlerisation: In the Japanese version of "The Case of Mai Minase", Skeith's wand has a cross shape visible at the top; in the American version, the cross shape is changed to the Q shape used in .hack//SIGN and the American releases of the games.

Source: Anime / .hack//Liminality
In Schlock Mercenary, the aquatic, tentacled Schuul being behind the civil war plot is hinted at by the personality-overwriting "hack" being used: this strip shows the hack as water, when its previous use had manifested as someone "moving in", and this one has an interesting shape while melting.

Source: Foreshadowing / Web Comics

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