refigure

See also: refiguré

English

Etymology

re- +‎ figure

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ)

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To figure again or anew.
   • 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 96:

     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.

   • 2007 November 29, Marci Alboher, “Like Marriage, Business Takes Work”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     "I'm taking a step back to refigure out my own career, as is Sweet Talk," Ms. Gallo said.

2. (transitive) To duplicate.
   • 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,
     If ten of thine ten times refigur'd thee ...

3. (transitive, astronomy) To restore the parabolic figure of, as of a parabolic mirror.

Spanish

Verb

refigure

1. inflection of refigurar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative