reshaping

English

Verb

reshaping

1. present participle and gerund of reshape

Noun

reshaping (plural reshapings)

1. The process by which something is reshaped.

   Hypernyms: remodeling, reworking

   Hyponym: regrading

   Near-synonym: recontouring

   • 2009 June 28, David Gates, “The Postmodern Me”, in New York Times‎:

     In one sense or another, each of the stories is about the creation of private fictions, reshapings of the world in order to make it walkable.

Anagrams

• phasering, rephasing, sherpaing