refashion

R1E1F4A1S1H4I1O1N1

verb

To fashion again or anew.

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Meanings

verbrefashion (third-person singular simple present refashions, present participle refashioning, simple past and past participle refashioned)

present singular third person refashions · participle present refashioning · participle past refashioned · past refashioned

  1. transitiveTo fashion again or anew.
    1 more example

    Subsequently, the GDR’s antifascist tradition would be diluted, distorted, and refashioned into an ahistorical national origins myth in which the citizens of East Germany were officially proclaimed the “victors of history,” but where little space remained for the real and complicated history, not to mention ambivalent role of Stalinized Communism, behind it.

    2017 May 28, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine

Synonyms & antonyms

verbmake new

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁k-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*dʰh₁kyéti
  9. Proto-Italic*θakjō
  10. Proto-Italic*fakjō
  11. Latinfaciō
  12. Latinfactiōnem
  13. Old Frenchfaçon
  14. Middle Englishfacioun
  15. Englishfashion
  16. Englishrefashion

From re- + fashion.

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Translations

Bulgarian префасонирам, преустройвам
  • префасонирам (prefasoniram)to fashion again or anew
  • преустройвам (preustrojvam)to fashion again or anew
Latin refingō
  • refingōto fashion again or anew

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APA

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MLA

“refashion.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/refashion. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “refashion,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/refashion.

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