PREFIGURE


Meaning of PREFIGURE in English

(~s, prefiguring, ~d)

If one thing ~s 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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