Refigure
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Refigure is a verb meaning (transitive) To figure again or anew.
Meaning
(transitive) To figure again or anew.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To duplicate.
- (transitive, astronomy) To restore the parabolic figure of, as of a parabolic mirror.
Example Sentences
Ten times thyself were happier than thou art, If ten of thine ten times refigur'd thee .
"I'm taking a step back to refigure out my own career, as is Sweet Talk," Ms. Gallo said.
The hookworm campaign […] was far more effective in creating and legitimating powerful new social boundaries. Through the rhetoric of the hookworm campaign, poor white trash were partially refigured as pure white Americans, a group that deserved higher status and greater prestige than that accorded to southern blacks.
Word Forms
- refigures
- refiguring
- refigured
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include refigurate, revisualize, redetermine, refreshen, revisualise, reflate.
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