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refigured

refigured is the simple past and past participle of refigure.

Meaning of refigure

Verb

refigure (third-person singular simple present refigures, present participle refiguring, simple past and past participle refigured)

  1. (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...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.

Questions about refigured

What is refigured the simple past and past participle of?
Refigured is the simple past and past participle of refigure.

Words near refigured in the dictionary

  1. refight
  2. refighting
  3. refights
  4. refigurate
  5. refigure
  6. refigured
  7. refiguring
  8. refikite
  9. refile
  10. refiled
  11. refiler

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