refigure

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verb

To figure again or anew.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person refigures · participle present refiguring · participle past refigured · past refigured

  1. transitiveTo figure again or anew.

    "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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    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
  2. transitiveTo 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. transitiveastronomyTo restore the parabolic figure of, as of a parabolic mirror.

Origin

From re- + figure.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with refigure

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APA

refigure. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/refigure

MLA

“refigure.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/refigure. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “refigure,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/refigure.

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