Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: effigy
IPA transcription: ['ɛfɪdʒi]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: effigy, image, simulacrum
    Meaning: a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone"
Usage examples
  • Like the tattered effigy in a cornfield
  • Maybe Rakkeed wanted the dog, to kill before a congregation of his followers, killing us by proxy, or in effigy.
  • Let me assure you that the treaty with Great Britain will be made though every city in the Union burn me in effigy."
  • He saw, the history says, the very countenance, the very face, the very look, the very physiognomy, the very effigy, the very image of the bachelor Samson Carrasco!
  • The weather-stained effigy of the mounted king, with its vague suggestion of a saluting gesture, seemed to present an inscrutable breast to the political changes which had robbed it of its very name; but neither did the other horseman, well known to the people, keen and alive on his well-shaped, slate-coloured beast with a white eye, wear his heart on the sleeve of his English coat.