Meanings
present singular third person refashions · participle present refashioning · participle past refashioned · past refashioned
- 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
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Italic*wre-
- Latinre-
- Old Frenchre-
- Middle Englishre-
- Englishre-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁k-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰh₁kyéti
- Proto-Italic*θakjō
- Proto-Italic*fakjō
- Latinfaciō
- Latinfactiōnem
- Old Frenchfaçon
- Middle Englishfacioun
- Englishfashion
- Englishrefashion
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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Cite this entry
refashion. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/refashion
“refashion.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/refashion. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “refashion,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/refashion.
Source: refashion on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.