2. To shape, mold, or fashion especially with artistry or precision: "Zoning is a blunt instrument that can at best shape but should not try to sculpt cities"(H. Claude Shostal).
v.intr.
To be a sculptor.
[French sculpter, from Old French, from Latin sculpere, sculpt-, to carve; see sculpture.]
artistic creation, artistic production, art - the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"
grave, sculpt, sculpture - shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband"
shape, mould, mold, form, forge, work - make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword"
2.
sculpt - shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband"