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effigy The night before the big game, an effigy of the rival coach was burned on a huge bonfire. ˈɛfɪʤi

Accepted Answer

An image of a person, especially a crude representation of a hated person. It was the practice of the ancient Egyptians to bury an effigy of a dead person along with that person's body. The idea was that if anything happened to the body in the afterlife, the effigy could be used as a spare. Effigy now usually refers to crude stuffed figures of the kind that get abused by angry protestors and unruly college students. But the small dolls that witches have used to bring pain and death on their victims can be called effigies as well. Actually, those witches and college kids seem to use their effigies for pretty much the same thing

word	effigy
definition	An image of a person, especially a crude representation of a hated person.
eg_sentence	The night before the big game, an effigy of the rival coach was burned on a huge bonfire.
explanation	It was the practice of the ancient Egyptians to bury an effigy of a dead person along with that person's body. The idea was that if anything happened to the body in the afterlife, the effigy could be used as a spare. Effigy now usually refers to crude stuffed figures of the kind that get abused by angry protestors and unruly college students. But the small dolls that witches have used to bring pain and death on their victims can be called effigies as well. Actually, those witches and college kids seem to use their effigies for pretty much the same thing
IPA	ˈɛfɪʤi

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