refigure
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 8
Definition of refigure
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To figure again or anew.
“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.”
“"I'm taking a step back to refigure out my own career, as is Sweet Talk," Ms. Gallo said.”
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verb
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(transitive)To figure again or anew.
“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.”
“"I'm taking a step back to refigure out my own career, as is Sweet Talk," Ms. Gallo said.”
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(transitive)To duplicate.
“Ten times thyself were happier than thou art, If ten of thine ten times refigur'd thee ...”
- (transitive)To restore the parabolic figure of, as of a parabolic mirror.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From re- + figure.
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