Refashioned

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To redesign an object or item by significantly altering its previous style, thereby creating a new version or enhancing its existing form with a fresh appearance
2. Changed the style or shape of something to create a different look or function
3. Altered the appearance or structure of an item to give it a renewed or updated form

Etymology: Refashion is about as plain as English compounds get: the prefix re-, meaning "again" or "anew," attached to fashion, so to refashion something is to make it over into a new shape or style. The past tense and past participle add the usual -ed, so "refashioned" simply reports that such a remaking has already happened. The deeper story sits in "fashion." It comes from Latin "factio," a making or doing, which was built from the verb "facere," to make. Latin "factio" passed into Old French as "façon," meaning the making or shape of a thing, and Middle English borrowed it as "facioun." Over time the sense narrowed from the act of making to the manner or form a thing is made in, and eventually to the style of clothing and appearance that the modern word still carries.

Synonyms: redesigned, remodeled, reconstructed, revamped, altered

Antonyms: destroyed, ruined, dismantled, disassembled, left unchanged