refashion
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Synonyms & Antonyms for refashion
Synonyms
alter, change, make over, modify, recast, redo, remake, remodel, revamp, revise, rework, vary
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The cabinet changes are Mrs. May’s first major effort to refashion her top team, after months of speculation about her future. — Stephen Castle, New York Times, "Theresa May Reshuffles U.K. Cabinet, but Little Changes," 8 Jan. 2018 Executives have spent years shining up a reputation sullied by the 2008 crisis and refashioning the elite firm as a Main Street bank. — Bradley Hope, WSJ, "Justice Department Charges Ex-Goldman Bankers in Malaysia 1MDB Scandal," 1 Nov. 2018 The ’90s anchor the Ekroth collection, while the ’80s influence the designer’s refashioning of Terinit. — Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue, "Rolf Ekroth, a Rising Finn, Scores Big With a Double Debut at Pitti Uomo," 10 Jan. 2019 Most were in European cities like Lisbon, where travel was being refashioned by the new slew of low-cost airlines like easyJet that made weekend breaks across the continent more affordable to everyone. — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, "How Hostels Became Poshtels: The Remaking of a Backpacker's Hangout," 12 Sep. 2018 Its owners had hired a young Paris architect, Pierre Barbe, to refashion the interior, which had been carved up over the years. — William Middleton, Town & Country, "How the De Menil Family Raised Good Taste to an Art Form," 7 Mar. 2018 As for those, veteran film and Broadway costumer Ann Roth and production designer Jane Musky, refashioning a scenic Monroe, N.Y., manor house (which stood in for the Russian estate), make ace contributions. — Gary Goldstein, latimes.com, "Annette Bening, Saoirse Ronan and Elisabeth Moss headline lively new film version of 'The Seagull'," 8 May 2018 The charismatic Ishihara sells these numbers, particularly when Shoichi refashions himself as a singing drummer. — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, "Film / Foreign Discover the work of noted Japanese genre director Umetsugu Inoue," 30 May 2018 Britain’s turn from its welfare state in the face of yawning budget deficits is a conspicuous indicator that the world has been refashioned by the crisis. — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, "In Britain, Austerity Is Changing Everything," 28 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'refashion.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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