restyle

verb

re·​style (ˌ)rē-ˈstī(-ə)l 

restyled; restyling

transitive verb

1

: to change or restore the style of (something or someone)

completely restyled the car's front end

restyled his hair

In her sixties, a youthful-looking [Ching] Hai has restyled herself as a blonde in patterned flowing gowns.

—Candace Sutton

2

: to call or designate (someone or something) by a new or different name

… his clever heroine, who grew up in Brooklyn as "Katya," restyles herself in 1930s Manhattan as … "Katey,"…

—Liesl Schillinger

… those doctor-scientists who were still called "alienists," eventually to be restyled as clinical psychiatrists.

—Simon Winchester

Examples of restyle in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The town hall recently funded the makeover of the external façades of some ancient palazzos, prompting several locals to entirely restyle their old family homes and put them to use after decades of neglect. —Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024

Arguably, no other snake, lizard, or turtle has been so sweepingly restyled by human effort. —Rebecca Giggs, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024

All the way back in 1959, Carroll Shelby, Jim Hall, and Gary Laughlin had three bare C1 chassis sent to Scaglietti so they could be restyled as Italian coupés. —Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2023

While this spray can be used to boost dry hair, it can also be used before restyling with heat, such as with a hot air brush. —Rebecca Norris, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023

That dynamic helps explain why the Conservative leader, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, scrapped part of a costly high-speed rail project — one long supported by both parties — and is restyling himself as a disrupter. —Mark Landler, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023

The Pizza Planet truck is restyled to fit the film, but there are two appearances. —Robert Higgs, cleveland, 14 Sep. 2023

The gear selector has been restyled from the standard grab-handle shifter mounted on the transmission tunnel, to a low-profile shifter in the same place. —Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 13 Mar. 2023

After decades of pitching Netflix as a technology company that happened to distribute entertainment, executives there have lately attempted to restyle their streaming behemoth as an entertainment company that happens to rely on technology. —Christopher Mims, WSJ, 29 July 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1841, in the meaning defined at sense 1