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refashioning

refashioning is the present participle and gerund of refashion.

Meaning of refashion

Verb

refashion (third-person singular simple present refashions, present participle refashioning, simple past and past participle refashioned)

  1. (transitive) To fashion again or anew.
    • Subsequently, the GDR’s antifascist tradition would be diluted, distorted, and refashioned into an ahistorical national origins myth in which the citizens of East Germany were officially proclaimed the “victors of history,” but where little space remained for the real and complicated history, not...2017 May, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine

Noun

refashioning (plural refashionings)

  1. A reinvention; an act of fashioning again.

Forms of refashioning

pluralrefashionings

Questions about refashioning

What does refashioning mean?
Refashioning means a reinvention; an act of fashioning again.
What is refashioning the present participle and gerund of?
Refashioning is the present participle and gerund of refashion.
What part of speech is refashioning?
Refashioning is a noun.
What is the plural of refashioning?
The plural of refashioning is refashionings.

Words near refashioning in the dictionary

  1. refashion
  2. refashionable
  3. refashioned
  4. refashioner
  5. refashioners
  6. refashioning
  7. refashionings
  8. refashionment
  9. refashionments
  10. refashions
  11. refasten

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Adapted from Wiktionary: refashioning (page history and authors); refashion (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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