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)
- 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
- 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
- Ten times thyself were happier than thou art,
- 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.
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