Refashioning

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. The act of changing the style or appearance of something to update or improve it
2. A process of redesigning an item to alter its look or structure
3. Modifying the form or style of an object to create a new or refreshed version

Etymology: The base of "refashioning" is "fashion", which came into English from Old French "façon", itself descended from Latin "factiōnem", a noun built on "facere", "to make" or "to do". So the word's deepest meaning is simply "making", and the English sense of a style of dress is a later narrowing of that idea. The "re-" prefix comes from Latin and means "again" or "back", so to refashion something is to make it again in a new form. The prefix is attached to a familiar root, which is why the word is so transparent: it describes doing the "making" a second time. Its meaning here is the practical one of altering an item's look or structure through redesign, rather than repairing or replacing it.

Synonyms: remodeling, reworking, redesigning, restructuring, altering

Antonyms: preserving, maintaining, keeping, stagnating, standardizing