sculpt
v.to shape or form a solid material like stone, wood, or clay into a specific shape. You use this when making art or when nature changes the land over time.
v.to shape or form a solid material into a three-dimensional object or figure. Often used in the context of artistic creation or geological processes.
“She uses a chisel to sculpt the marble into a statue.”
“The artist spent months trying to sculpt the perfect likeness of the famous poet from a single block of limestone.”
“While the sculptor meticulously chipped away at the granite, the wind and rain were slowly sculpting the coastline into jagged cliffs over thousands of years.”
From French sculpter, from Latin sculpō (“to cut out, carve in stone”).
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.