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prefigures

prefigures is the third-person singular simple present indicative of prefigure.

Meaning of prefigure

Verb

prefigure (third-person singular simple present prefigures, present participle prefiguring, simple past and past participle prefigured)

  1. (often in a Biblical context) To show or suggest ahead of time; to represent beforehand.
    • Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai, all prefigure NRx urban futures.2018 September 29, Roger Burrows, “On Neoreaction”, in The Sociological Review Magazine
  2. To predict or foresee.

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Questions about prefigures

What is prefigures the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Prefigures is the third-person singular simple present indicative of prefigure.

Words near prefigures in the dictionary

  1. prefigurativeness
  2. prefigure
  3. prefigured
  4. prefigurement
  5. prefigurements
  6. prefigures
  7. prefigureth
  8. prefiguring
  9. prefigurings
  10. prefile
  11. prefiled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prefigures (page history and authors); prefigure (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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