Sentence:  According to his own testimony , he never actually saw things as <WSD>shaped</WSD> but only as generally amorphous `` blots '' of color of a more or less indefinite size ; at their edges they slipped pretty much out of focus altogether . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort)