PREFIGURE


Meaning of PREFIGURE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ pri:fɪgə(r), AM -gjər ]

( prefigures, prefiguring, prefigured)

If one thing prefigures another, it is a first indication which suggests or determines that the second thing will happen. ( FORMAL )

The wall through Berlin was finally ruptured, prefiguring the reunification of Germany.

VERB : V n

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