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Prefigure

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Verb

1. prefigure

imagine or consider beforehand

Example Sentences:
'It wasn't as bad as I had prefigured'

2. augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate

indicate by signs

Example Sentences:
'These signs bode bad news'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Prefigure

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verb (transitive)
1. 
to represent or suggest in advance
2. 
to imagine or consider beforehand

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Prefigure

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verb transitiveWord forms: preˈfigured or preˈfiguring
1. 
to suggest beforehand; be an antecedent figure or type of; foreshadow
2. 
to picture to oneself, or imagine, beforehand

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Prefigure

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tr.v. pre·fig·ured, pre·fig·ur·ing, pre·fig·ures
1. To suggest, indicate, or represent by an antecedent form or model; presage or foreshadow: The paintings of Paul Cézanne prefigured the rise of cubism in the early 1900s.
2. Archaic To imagine in advance.

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