Antonyms for refashion


Grammar : Verb
Spell : fash-uhn
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfæʃ ən


Definition of refashion

Origin :
  • 1788 (implied in refashioned), from re- + fashion (v.). Related: Refashioning.
  • As in modify : verb alter, change
  • As in reconstruct : verb reorganize, build up
  • As in reform : verb correct, rectify
  • As in repeat : verb duplicate, do again
  • As in turn : verb adapt, fit
  • As in revolutionize : verb transform
  • As in restate : verb repeat
  • As in alter : verb change
Example sentences :
  • He may refashion institutions that may express the new in modern terms.
  • Extract from : « Society » by Henry Kalloch Rowe
  • What it usually does is to refashion an old one, or to devote an old one to new uses.
  • Extract from : « A Grammar of Freethought » by Chapman Cohen
  • I wish I could grasp the all in my hand and refashion it into something more perfect, more lasting, more beautiful.
  • Extract from : « The Road to Damascus » by August Strindberg
  • On their removal from the Tower the jewels are carefully inventoried, and Heriot is set to work to refashion them.
  • Extract from : « Jewellery » by H. Clifford Smith,
  • Then, perhaps, peasant lovers will wander here and refashion their dreams of a chivalrous world.
  • Extract from : « Out To Win » by Coningsby Dawson
  • Our wish is impotent to refashion the world; the understanding clearly shows that it indeed is such a machine.
  • Extract from : « The Theistic Conception of the World » by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
  • She must really, she said, begin to remodel and refashion some of her many silks and satins for the approaching season.
  • Extract from : « Cleg Kelly, Arab of the City » by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
  • Can it be that the morn shall fulfil My dream, and refashion our clay As the poet may fashion his rhyme?
  • Extract from : « Dreams and Days: Poems » by George Parsons Lathrop
  • There the former tried to refashion the work of many months--two hundred pages of a novel which the flames destroyed.
  • Extract from : « Port O' Gold » by Louis John Stellman
  • It does not seek to refashion the State or to aid in its evolution toward social democracy.
  • Extract from : « Violence and the Labor Movement » by Robert Hunter

Synonyms for refashion

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