fashion – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to fashion
Participle: fashioned
Gerund: fashioning

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	fashion
we	Let's fashion
you	fashion

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to construct

artifice, betimber, build, build up, compile, construct, edify, erect, extruct, fabricate, form, make, manufacture, produce, put together, put up, rear, timber, upbuild

construct

forge, form, contrive, frame, make, mold, shape

Antonyms

construct

dismantle, demolish, destroy, raze

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. c.1300, "shape, manner, mode," from O.Fr. façon, from L. factionem (nom. factio) "group of people acting together," lit. "a making or doing," from facere "to make" (see factitious). Sense of "prevailing custom" is from c.1489; that of "style of attire" is from 1529. The verb is first recorded 1413. Fashionable in the sense of "stylish" is from 1608.

"To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is wearable." [Eugenia Sheppard, "New York Herald Tribune," Jan. 13, 1960]

Fashion plate (1851) originally was "full-page picture in a popular magazine showing the prevailing or latest style of dress," in ref. to the "plate" from which it was printed. Transf. sense of "well-dressed person" had emerged by 1920s.
2. Inherited from Middle English facioun, from Anglo-Norman fechoun (compare Jersey Norman faichon), variant of Old French faceon, fazon, façon (“fashion, form, make, outward appearance”), from Latin factiō (“a making”), from faciō (“do, make”); see fact. Doublet of faction. See: Latin 'factiō'.

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