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🧠 To recreate mentally 🏗️ To rebuild 🤝 To reform people
to reconstruct

to reconstruct

9 5.7
Help people adapt to life in society after war or conflict
  • verb
  • /ˌriːkənˈstrʌkt/
  • Formal
translation icon : reconstruir
  • We are challenged to reconstruct our profession so it can function effectively in today's and tomorrow's musical worlds
  • reconstruct their identity
  • reconstruct society
  • reconstruct their lives

De Beauvoir says she lacks the means to reconstruct society in different form.

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Examples

  • If so, how can the United Nations go about reconstructing such fundamental institutions of state and society?

    Academic text (1993)

  • Freedpeople emerged from the war eager to reconstruct their tattered families.

    Academic text (2008)

  • For them, this moment is about whether we as a people will reconstruct the heart of our communities.

    Stanford

  • And we have to reconstruct and to make the country work and growth and to continue working.

  • And now I'm lost again with my identity and I find it hard to find it back and find a way to reconstruct myself.

    Evan Carmichael

  • I'm going to be spending every waking moment trying to reconstruct a normal life.

    Away We Go (2009)

  • The U.S., as a new hegemon, helped to reconstruct Western Europe and Japan after World War II.

    Academic text (1993)

  • The mission of IIUM intersects with the goals of Vision 2020 and with the plan to reconstruct Malay identity.

    Academic text (2009)

  • And I think that's really the only path to healing and to and to really reconstructing society around more equitable lines.

    Rich Roll

  • After his traumatic experience, he is determined to reconstruct himself and build a better future.

Synonyms

to readjust
vsto reconstruct
22 3.8

Change something or yourself again to fit a new situation

involves social or political reformation rather than general adaptation
to reclaim
vsto reconstruct
16 5.3

To persuade someone to leave a harmful life and live better

focuses more on rebuilding society and political structures after upheaval
to reintegrate
vsto reconstruct
14 6.2

To bring a person back into a group or society after being away

is focused on social or political rebuilding after major upheaval
to reassimilate
vsto reconstruct
2 7.5

To become part of a group again or help someone do the same

emphasizes broader social or political reform after big change
to regenerate
vsto reconstruct
  • Formal
2 7.2

Help a person change to a better, more responsible life

centers on social or political recovery rather than personal moral change
to reacclimate
vsto reconstruct
1 7.3

To help a living thing become used again to a place or climate

is about social or political reform not physical or environmental adjustment
to reimplant
vsto reconstruct
7.8

To put an idea, feeling, or habit back into people's minds

aims at social or political adaptation rather than changing inner beliefs

How Reformed

to transform
523 3.4
to reconstruct
  • Formal
9 5.7
to reform
228 3.7

Surface Forms

reconstruct infinitive
reconstructed past
reconstructed past participle
reconstructing present participle
reconstructs third person singular

Morphology

reconstruct = construct (semi-transparent) = re + construct

The social/political sense is an extension from physical rebuilding and may not be immediately obvious to all learners even though it derives from re- + construct.

Etymology

Reconstruct is made of re- 'again' and construct 'to build', as in structure or construction. That's why to reconstruct people or communities after war or big change is to 'build again' their social life, roles, and systems.