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refigure en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + figure.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To figure again or anew.
   • "I'm taking a step back to refigure out my own career, as is Sweet Talk," Ms. Gallo said. 2007 November 29, Marci Alboher, “Like Marriage, Business Takes Work”, in New York Times:
   • 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. 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 96:
2. (transitive) To duplicate.
   • Ten times thyself were happier than thou art, If ten of thine ten times refigur'd thee ... 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 6”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
3. (transitive) To restore the parabolic figure of, as of a parabolic mirror.

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