refigure
verbEtymology From re- + figure.
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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.2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 96:
- "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:
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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:
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Astronomy, Natural sciences To restore the parabolic figure of, as of a parabolic mirror.