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fashioning

fashioning is the present participle and gerund of fashion.

Meaning of fashion

Verb

fashion (third-person singular simple present fashions, present participle fashioning, simple past and past participle fashioned)

  1. To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.
    • I have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I have fashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low.1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX
  2. (dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
    • Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.1691, [John Locke], Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1692, →OCLC
  3. (dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.
    • Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people.1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […]...
  4. (obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.
    • Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion feet.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

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Noun

fashioning (plural fashionings)

  1. The act or process of fashioning something; manufacture.

Forms of fashioning

pluralfashionings

Words formed from fashioning

Phrases with fashioning

Questions about fashioning

What does fashioning mean?
Fashioning means the act or process of fashioning something; manufacture.
What is fashioning the present participle and gerund of?
Fashioning is the present participle and gerund of fashion.
What part of speech is fashioning?
Fashioning is a noun.
What is the plural of fashioning?
The plural of fashioning is fashionings.

Words near fashioning in the dictionary

  1. fashioner
  2. fashioners
  3. fashionese
  4. fashionest
  5. fashioneth
  6. fashioning
  7. fashioning needle
  8. fashioning needles
  9. fashioning piece
  10. fashioning pieces
  11. fashionings

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