Plot
Plot verb - To engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends.
Usage example: mobsters were caught plotting to take over the company
Shape
Shape verb - To work out the details of (something) in advance.
Usage example: over the winter the committee shaped the company's new marketing strategy
How words are described
| good | good plot | good shape |
| long | long plot | long shape |
| exact | exact plot | exact shape |
| particular | particular plot | particular shape |
| Other adjectives: better, similar, usual, common, current, original, true, simple, actual, real, large, big, great, bad, dark, general, bizarre, basic, different, overall. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Amusingly, by the end of the plot he manages to shape up and puts together a careful plan of attack, only for Shazam to ruin it by doing this instead - which Lantern lampshades.
- One episode of Painkiller Jane had Jane imprisoned in an institution in a plot involving a shape-changer and rescued by friend Maureen.
Source: Imposter Forgot One Detail -
Sunshine drops this as a main plot point, but still uses it for purposes of parody in the shape of Kurara Nemoto, a cosplayer who had always dreamed of becoming a Magical Girl Warrior.
Source: Franchise / Jewelpet
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Shape and Plot. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/plot/shape
Plot & Shape. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/plot/shape>.
Shape or Plot. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/plot/shape.
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