(transitive, obsolete) To metamorphose; change the shape of; transform.
late 14th century, John Gower, Confessio Amantis
Unkindelich he was transformed,
That he which erst a man was formed,
Into a woman was forshape,
That was to him an angry jape.
(transitive, obsolete) To put out of shape; distort; make misshapen; disfigure.