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re·style | \ (ˌ)rē-ˈstī(-ə)l 
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\restyled; restyling
Definition of restyle
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
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The first known use of restyle was in 1841
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