Restyles

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Changes the style or appearance of something, usually to update or alter its fashion
2. Modifies the design or manner of an item or presentation to reflect a different style
3. Alters the look or format of something to give it a new or different stylistic character

Etymology: "Restyles" is the third-person singular present form of "restyle," so the core history belongs to "style" and the prefix "re-." "Style" traces back through Old French "estile" and Latin "stilus," a pointed writing instrument used to scratch letters into wax tablets. That physical tool gave the English word its first sense of a manner of writing, and only later a broader sense of manner or fashion in general. The prefix "re-" comes from Latin, meaning "again" or "back," and reached English through Old French. Joined to "style," it means to give something a new style: to shape it again in a fresh form. The word is a plain compound, built in English from these two parts rather than inherited as a single unit.

Synonyms: restyles, redesigns